All episodes
Thursday, 1 August 2013
Roy Kerr's Einstein Medal, QuakeSurfer, analysing fisheries by-catch data and wandering albatrosses
Full episodeThursday, 18 July 2013
Maori rock art, Hamilton stream survey and the Valuing Nature conference
Full episodeThursday, 11 July 2013
Image guidance equipment for neurosurgery, breeding virus-resistant Pacific oysters, the mathematics of epidemics and a spotted shag spectcle at Tata Beach.
Full episodeThursday, 4 July 2013
Eradicating the great white butterfly in Nelson, recapturing Duncan - Auckland’s wandering kōkako, building a cardiac myometer, and using lasers to make better solar cells.
Full episodeThursday, 27 June 2013
A hydrogen barbecue, the maths of climate change with Bill McKibben, Rangitoto's history of volcanic activity and the evolution of saddleback song.
Full episodeThursday, 20 June 2013
Playing Tetris to cure amblyopia, implanting ions into solids, urban kaka, and codes and ciphers.
Full episodeThursday, 13 June 2013
Three Kings Islands marine expedition, and stuttering and the brain.
Full episodeThursday, 6 June 2013
Smoke drift in restaurants, public health and smoking, attitudes to smoking outside bars, the value of science and New Zealand Birds Online
Full episodeThursday, 30 May 2013
Record global CO2 levels, Generation Zero and climate change conference; trialling a new possum lure; and pharmacogenomics.
Full episodeThursday, 23 May 2013
E-crime forensics; New Zealand Virtual Herbarium; and training sniffer bees as biosecurity agents
Full episodeThursday, 16 May 2013
An investigation into kauri dieback disease - Phytophthora taxon Agathis or PTA - a new disease that is infecting and killing kauri trees in northern New Zealand.
Full episodeThursday, 9 May 2013
Sooty shearwaters on Mana Island; anti-cancer drugs from marine sponges; microbes and metabolomics; and industrial mathematics, exploding volcanoes and bouncy fruit.
Full episodeThursday, 2 May 2013
National Science Challenges, fertility biomarkers, renaming Hebe as 'Veronica', and honeybees and pollination research.
Full episodeThursday, 25 April 2013
Heathcote River recovery after earthquakes; mind-reading machines; moa coprolites; and a walking exoskeleton.
Full episodeThursday, 18 April 2013
Maths and ecology; a tour of the National Radiation Laboratory; and earthquake geology and palaeo-seismology in Canterbury.
Full episodeThursday, 11 April 2013
The plight of long-finned eels; the body's own antioxidants; and how kauri trees will adapt to climate change.
Full episodeThursday, 4 April 2013
New fast DNA test for food-borne diseases; post-earthquake archaeology in Christchurch; using pathogen mimics to ensure clean water; and godwits and the Miranda Shorebird Centre
Full episodeThursday, 28 March 2013
Developing smarter hearing aids, Antarctica and global ocean circulation, medical robots and citizen-science project NatureWatch NZ.
Full episodeThursday, 21 March 2013
The Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust is leading efforts to save forest on private land and protect wildlife through predator trapping.
Full episodeThursday, 14 March 2013
Ladybirds as biological control to help potato industry, articulograph and science of eating, cooling to prevent brain damage in preterm infants, and butterflies at Kaitorete Spit with Brian and Hamish Patrick
Full episodeThursday, 7 March 2013
Translocation of Hutton's shearwater chicks, polar microbes, Marine Metre Squared project, and impact of sedimentation on paua and kina.
Full episodeThursday, 28 February 2013
Successful trout eradication at Zealandia sanctuary, fisheries acoustics, and a mini stroke study.
Full episodeThursday, 21 February 2013
A public day out at Auckland's Tahuna Torea wetland, modelling debris flows in the lab, chemically fingerprinting old photographs, the second half of a tour of a forensics laboratory.
Full episodeThursday, 14 February 2013
The first half of a tour of a forensics laboratory; palaeo-liquefaction in Christchurch; the microbiology of human breast milk versus infant formula; and using sound as a lure for trapping possums.
Full episode