All episodes
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Underwater noise and larval dispersal, Zonta award for endometriosis researcher, targeting asthma, fire-testing at BRANZ
Full episodeThursday, 9 August 2012
Restoring Maketu-Ongatoro spit, cochlear microphonic, seafood safety, and giant wetapunga breeding programme at Auckland Zoo
Full episodeThursday, 2 August 2012
Dune Restoration Trust and Loder Cup winner 2011, better classroom ventilation, short-tailed bats and geckos as pollinators, and thiols in sauvignon blanc.
Full episodeThursday, 26 July 2012
Health benefits of home heating and insulation, nanosensors, and food for appetite control and satiety research.
Full episodeThursday, 19 July 2012
Sir Paul Callaghan Young Science Orators Award, nano- and micro-fluidics, genetics of kiwifruit Psa disease, and testing umbrellas in the OPUS wind tunnel
Full episodeThursday, 12 July 2012
Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution project, susceptibility to Psa-V, leap second, perforated electric flow-through water filter.
Full episodeThursday, 5 July 2012
Higgs boson detected at LHC, enzymes and cancer, diagnosing cancer, breeding a Psa-resistant kiwifruit.
Full episodeThursday, 28 June 2012
After the oil: follow-up on Rena oil spill disaster; and START - new science, technology and art initiative.
Full episodeThursday, 21 June 2012
Bumblebees and pollination, computers as earthquake detectors, vegetation fire research, and a follow-up on sleep apnoea patient Maui Stuart.
Full episodeThursday, 14 June 2012
The Island Bay Marine Education Centre, roof moisture and ventilation, the Aoraki-Mackenzie Dark Sky reserve, and the effect of earthquake shaking on soft soils.
Full episodeThursday, 7 June 2012
The 2012 Transit of Venus celebrations at Tolaga Bay included science, history, astronomy and sustainable land use.
Full episodeThursday, 31 May 2012
Rap music and science, weather tightness of buildings, history of Venus transits, and getting rid of pests from Ulva Island.
Full episodeThursday, 24 May 2012
Simulating a volcanic eruption, urban kereru in Wellington, slam testing composites, and how New Zealand is the first country to catalogue its living and fossil biodiversity.
Full episodeThursday, 17 May 2012
Teaching science in primary schools, creating and testing composites, science poetry, and a twisted flow wind tunnel
Full episodeThursday, 10 May 2012
Tagging great white sharks, predicted sea-level rise, and art-science exhibition Dark Sky.
Full episodeThursday, 3 May 2012
Ulva or sea lettuce and harbour ecology, part 4 of the Global Body series, and the plant virus hunter.
Full episodeThursday, 26 April 2012
A computer game to treat young people suffering depression, the brain and fertility, emerging scientists consider their futures in New Zealand, and the 2012 Auckland Bioblitz and slime moulds
Full episodeThursday, 19 April 2012
Whio or blue duck conservation in the Tongariro Forest, the health of immigrants in Los Angeles, and a full-colour x-ray scanner
Full episodeThursday, 12 April 2012
Cold adaptation in stick insects, Fiordland Islands Restoration Programme.
Full episodeThursday, 5 April 2012
Scanning brain activity with functional MRI; part two of the BBC Discovery documentary series Global Body; and the Southland community nursery.
Full episodeThursday, 29 March 2012
The late Sir Paul Callaghan talks about his early life and science influences, apple bioactives, monitoring water quality in the Waituna catchment, and science reports from the Our Far South expedition.
Full episodeThursday, 22 March 2012
Flipping lakes; part 1 of BBC Discovery series on how modern life affects people's health; new approaches to studying happiness and well-being.
Full episodeThursday, 15 March 2012
Ecology of Waituna Lagoon, research into possible treatments for MS multiple sclerosis, and finding 16-19 million year old fossils at St Bathans
Full episodeThursday, 8 March 2012
Parasites in a coastal marine ecosystem, re-greening the rubble of Christchurch, clouds and their role in climate change, and a roof garden of Otago native plants
Full episodeThursday, 1 March 2012
Giant fossil penguins, fast-fibre digital communication system KAREN, GPS tracking of juvenile royal albatrosses, urban ecology in Dunedin.
Full episode