All episodes

Monday, 28 December 2015

• 9:06 Time Travelling through Mead Stream Gorge
• 9:46 Rare Mudfish, the Farmer and the School
• 9:06 Tracking the Lapita Expansion Across the Pacific
• 9:06 To Catch a Trapdoor Spider

Thursday, 17 December 2015

Damselflies - fast blue and slow red

Damselflies - fast blue and slow red

A hundred years since Einstein's Theory of Relativity, a new report from the Royal Society of New Zealand on 'National Taxonomic Collections of New Zealand', Riccarton Bush, and damselflies

Thursday, 10 December 2015

Wetland wanderings in the Whangamarino

Wetland wanderings in the Whangamarino

Lampreys, black mudfish and the Whangamarino wetland, 'Lichen Quartet' poem, and geology news from 2015 Geosciences Society of NZ conference

Thursday, 3 December 2015

New methods for detecting leafroll-3 virus infections in grape vines, the Status of the World's Soils report, and a mini NZ Ecological Society conference looking at long term declines in birds and moths, DNA evidence of kiore eating moa and the discovery of Asian as well as European house mice in New Zealand.

Thursday, 26 November 2015

Reducing nitrate leaching from dairy farms, young New Zealanders head to the Paris climate talks, tea-bag science, and light and life in Antarctica

Thursday, 19 November 2015

Sunshine and UV exposure, NIWA's electronic guide to coastal crabs, James Hector's scientific legacy, and The Fishes of New Zealand book from Te Papa Press

Thursday, 12 November 2015

2015 Prime Minister's Science Prize won by bone research team, PM's Emerging Scientist prize won by bird intelligence researcher, smart haptic glove, and testing strength of mussel shells

Thursday, 5 November 2015

Marine conservation pioneer Bill Ballantine dies, Raglan's Whaingaroa Harbour Care Group, WWF's conservation innovation awards, Journey through the Anthropocene with Gaia Vince, and Mars missions and scanning brains of Antarctic over-winterers

Thursday, 29 October 2015

Endangered Species Foundation, bending light to search for alien planets, effect of diet supplements on brain function and cognition, and fish houses: kokopu condos and tuna townhouses

Thursday, 22 October 2015

Wilding pines and fire hazard, printable and flexible solar cells, and investigating the diet of the kuri or Maori dog

Thursday, 15 October 2015

Kaika Energy's biodigestor, Cook Strait subtidal currents, ultrafast lasers and methanogenic microbes in species of ruminants around the world

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Science of water and stony soils, evaluating Marsden Fund success, disease screening kakariki on Tiritiri Matangi Island, Wellington joins 100 Resilient Cities, and age of resilience

Thursday, 1 October 2015

A pandemic flu scenario on Great Barrier Island, animal reintroductions, biodiversity offsetting, feasibility of a low sodium diet, and the Kermadec ocean sanctuary

Thursday, 24 September 2015

Earthworm translocations, evolution of enzymes, cleaning oiled wildlife using salt water, and the Wildbase wildlife hospital fixes a kiwi's broken beak

Thursday, 17 September 2015

Breeding better apples using GM, light and recovery from surgery, national bee survey, viruses in Argentine ants and melting of the east Antarctic ice sheet

Thursday, 10 September 2015

Foods and blood glucose, complex ecosystems, soil taxonomy and does your first language influence your trombone playing.

Thursday, 3 September 2015

Plant barbecue to test flammability of plants, underwater glider Manaia, seabirds and plastic pollution, Stewart Island shag extinction history, Albatross poem, sound sculpture, and the psychology of climate change denial

Thursday, 27 August 2015

Vanuatu post Cyclone Pam, volcanic hazards for Taranaki, residents of the Bug Hotels, and blackcurrants are good news for our brains

Thursday, 20 August 2015

Trapdoor spiders, landscape architect and nature designer Mick Abbott, the technology behind a bionic voice, and testing low-damage precast bridges

Thursday, 13 August 2015

Lapita peoples and archaeological evidence in Vanuatu and the Pacific, and using 'air puffs' in speech to design phones that work better in nosiy environments

Thursday, 6 August 2015

Testing volcanic ballistics with a catapult and cannon, nature and well-being, and restoring New Plymouth's urban bush

Thursday, 30 July 2015

New Plymouth museum Puke Ariki and its collections, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres on upcoming Paris climate summit, and Blueskin Resilient Communities Trust

Thursday, 23 July 2015

Breeding and farming King salmon; sea urchins and their 'landscape of fear'; and sleep apnoea

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Sea Cleaners Trust and cleaning up NZ waterways; marine science round-up: colossal squid, Antarctic under-ice algae, NZ sea lions, new fishing net design & marine biosecurity; children, food and screen time

Thursday, 9 July 2015

Spinetail devil rays, chimaeras - deep sea sharks, using MRI to develop better stents, and the sshhmute – a practice mute for brass instruments