All episodes
Thursday, 23 June 2016
- 9:06 Restoring hearing
- 9:20 Biocontrol - fighting bad weeds
- 9:34 Synchrotron science: from cancer drugs to sheep skin leather
- 9:46 The garden bird survey turns 10
Thursday, 16 June 2016
- 9:06 Pesticide bad news for bee learning and memory
- 9:20 Microbes and moods
- 9:34 Big hopes for tiny wasp mite
- 9:46 Gotta have skin
- 9:55 DNA transfer between brain cells
Thursday, 9 June 2016
- 9:06 Citizen science: large brown seaweeds
- 9:15 Diatom blooms, extinctions and climate
- 9:20 Future of sea level rise science
- 9:35 Genome sequencing - a how-to-guide
Thursday, 2 June 2016
- 9:06 Tuning into whale song
- 9:20 The virus hunter and the rare plant
- 9:34 Acid test for coastal seas
- 9:46 Smart kaka - can you teach old parrots new tricks?
Thursday, 26 May 2016
- 9:06 Birds, feather colour – and sex
- 9:20 Learning from past floods
- 9:36 Solar storms and electricity supply
- 9:45 Healthy homes: a breath of fresh air
- 9:50 Up, up and away
Thursday, 19 May 2016
- 9:06 Goodie goodie - bird watching with Bill Oddie
- 9:20 Timing the Anthropocene
- 9:35 Lipoprotein(a) - little known but high risk for heart disease
- 9:45 Fat Science
Thursday, 12 May 2016
- 9:06 Shedding light on Māori health
- 9:20 The swallowing robot
- 9:30 Silencing science
- 9:44 Hand-rearing kākāpō chicks
- 9:46 Dunedin's royal albatrosses and #royalcam
Thursday, 5 May 2016
- 9:06 Genetic impacts of crop domestication
- 9:16 Measuring Dante's Hell
- 9:20 Tim Flannery: an atmosphere of hope
- 9:46 Whitebait mysteries – unravelling the lives of baby native fish
Thursday, 28 April 2016
- 9:06 Survivors - New Zealand's tiny native frogs
- 9:20 Nematodes from the deep
- 9:38 Thar she goes! On the tail of the Kermadec humpback whales
- 9:40 Acting on climate change - Royal Society of NZ report
- 9:55 Flicking the switch for electric cars
Thursday, 21 April 2016
- 9:06 Report brings climate change home
- 9:20 Shy fish, bold fish - insights into the lives of native fish
- 9:34 Marine maternity ward
- 9:46 Points, lines and polygons - the art of making maps
Thursday, 14 April 2016
- 9:06 Good for your joints - a smart device to improve how you walk
- 9:20 Preventing dementia
- 9:36 Long live the tapeworm - why parasites are a good idea
- 9:40 Yellow-eyed penguin numbers hit new low
- 9:45 An ode to mangroves
Thursday, 7 April 2016
- 9:06 Search for early signals of dementia with Parkinson's disease
- 9:20 E-textiles and smart fabrics
- 9:35 When a river meets the sea
- 9:46 Three decades on the tail of Hector’s dolphins
Thursday, 31 March 2016
- 9:06 Hands-on geology at the marae
- 9:20 Dunnocks - and what bird sperm can tell us
- 9:45 The art of science advice
Thursday, 24 March 2016
- 9:06 Tracking the health of kaimoana off Taranaki coast
- 9:20 Making sense of the code of life
- 9:34 Restoring nature at Nelson's Brook Waimarama Sanctuary
Thursday, 17 March 2016
- 9:06 CarpN Neutral - doing good things with bad koi carp
- 9:20 New Zealand's prehistoric polar forests
- 9:34 Using light and electricity to study individual brain cells
- 9:45 Hairy elephants and transgenic aphids
Thursday, 10 March 2016
- 9:06 Survival of the oldest
- 9:20 Truffle-like fungi: what their genes can tell us
- 9:34 The CRISPR dilemma
- 9:46 The 'smarts' behind a smart motorway
Thursday, 3 March 2016
- 9:06 Deterring sharks with electricity
- 9:20 Poetry and science inspired by Transit of Venus
- 9:36 A new future for marine protected areas in New Zealand
- 9:45 Lake Ohau reveals climate history
Thursday, 25 February 2016
- 9:06 Technology and learning
- 9:20 Antarctica's ice sheets more sensitive to warming
- 9:25 Booming kakapo numbers
- 9:30 Taiko take off
- 9:33 An albatross chick's flowerpot is its castle
- 9:35 Facing the reality of climate change
- 9:46 Hangi stones and magnetism
Thursday, 18 February 2016
- 9:06 Beetle versus spider
- 9:20 Cheaper, greener and bendier solar cells
- 9:34 Spotted skinks on the move
- 9:45 Eye of the storm - climate change in the Pacific
Thursday, 11 February 2016
- 9:10 In pursuit of the yellow octopus
- 9:20 Ecoblitz
- 9:50 Could Alzheimers disease be preventable?
- 9:55 LIGO 'sees' gravitational waves
Thursday, 4 February 2016
- 12:00 UK gives go-ahead for DNA editing of human embryos
- 9:06 Booming bitterns
- 9:20 Sexism in science
- 9:34 Gold nuggets - formed by bacteria?
- 9:45 Convicted for science
- 9:50 Genome sequencing every living kakapo
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Nanocamp for secondary school students, introduced species in Antarctica, and developing super lures for rats and possums using pheromones in urine
Full episodeThursday, 21 January 2016
Lake Wanaka's grebes, New Zealand's super genetic diversity and the Africa to Aotearoa Project, defining the Anthropocene, moreporks on Banks Peninsula and 2016 kakapo breeding season off to a racing start
Full episodeMonday, 11 January 2016
- 9:06 Medical Maggots for Wound Healing
- 9:06 The Art and Science of Beer
- 9:34 Brain Training to Slow Progression of Huntington's Disease
- 9:06 Testing Volcanic Ballistics with a Cannon and Catapult
- 9:06 Say a prayer for me
- 9:20 Dark skies, happy aurora watchers
Monday, 4 January 2016
- 9:20 Expedition to Subantarctic Antipodes Island
- 9:06 Black Petrels - New Zealand's Most At-Risk Seabird
- 9:34 Flower of the Underworld - A Parasitic Treasure
- 9:20 Mission Complete: New Zealand's first ocean glider takes to the seas
- 9:06 Gearhead Granny
- 9:20 Coastal erosion: people versus nature
- 9:36 Living with Parkinson's disease
- 9:40 Urban wildlife - should we care?
- 9:45 A possum-free Otago Peninsula
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