All episodes
Thursday, 4 August 2011
The Liggins Institute's tenth anniversary; volcanism in the Kermadec Islands; persistent organic pollutants; and the physiology of wearing medieval armour.
Full episodeThursday, 28 July 2011
Self-setting possum traps, early Polynesians, the science and art of icebergs, and a glass harmonium and aluminium rods
Full episodeThursday, 21 July 2011
A scientific approach to replanting the Wairio wetland; heart attacks and the fight or flight response; collecting insects on Raoul Island; a fire organ.
Full episodeThursday, 14 July 2011
HIV and chronic fatigue syndrome, native vegetation of subtropical Raoul Island, DNA evidence of early Polynesian visits to South America, and studying southern right whales at Auckland Island.
Full episodeThursday, 7 July 2011
Kermadecs series - fish collecting; Magnetic South; soil nematodes and earthworms; Alzheimer's disease and proteins
Full episodeThursday, 30 June 2011
Maungatautari mainland island; Parkinson's disease and light; molecular machines.
Full episodeThursday, 23 June 2011
Rowi transfer to Blumine Island, subantarctic Macquarie Island pest eradication, and an anechoic chamber and binaural sound
Full episodeThursday, 16 June 2011
Life in Antarctic sea ice; limits to freshwater; oxygen and free radicals.
Full episodeThursday, 9 June 2011
Women, exercise and protein; denitrification in lake sediments; biocomposites; and rip currents
Full episodeThursday, 2 June 2011
Tectonic plate boundaries, bryophytes, grass and cows, and bioimprints.
Full episodeThursday, 26 May 2011
Skin temperature and athletic performance, angiotensinogen and a potential test for blood pressure and pre-eclampsia, and biochar
Full episodeThursday, 19 May 2011
Dust in Antarctic ice, genetically engineered clover, the genes for colour in Mendel's pea plants, and biolistics with a gene gun
Full episodeThursday, 12 May 2011
Hunting for viruses in yellow-eyed penguins, and a special feature from the Climate Futures – Pathways for Society conference
Full episodeThursday, 5 May 2011
50-years of atmospheric research at Lauder, fibrinogen, creating sustainable cities, and building the energy efficient solar bach for the Solar Decathlon
Full episodeThursday, 28 April 2011
Heather bio-control in Tongariro National Park, Antarctic fish leeches and antifreeze, and the Martin Jetpack
Full episodeThursday, 21 April 2011
Methanogens in the rumen, the ARGO project and the world's oceans, molecular dragons, and a freshwater fish survey in the Rangiuru Stream
Full episodeThursday, 14 April 2011
Lab-on-a-chip devices with laser etching and microfabriction, part two of a story on weeds on Matiu/Somes Island, and a tribute to conservationist Don Merton
Full episodeThursday, 7 April 2011
Weeds on Matiu/Somes Island part one, a 3D scene scanner, and a visit to the southern Dry Valleys in Antarctica.
Full episodeThursday, 31 March 2011
Melanoma trends in NZ and Australia, surgical robots, measuring gravity in Antarctica, and a 3D food printer.
Full episodeThursday, 24 March 2011
Electric fishing for pest fish, modeling the brain to study sleep cycles, adjuvants for personalised cancer vaccines, and the first record of terrestrial turtles in New Zealand from the St Bathans fossil site
Full episodeThursday, 17 March 2011
Why the Canterbury earthquakes were so damaging, the byfusion process for re-using waste plastic, electrospinning hoki skin, and shock testing equipment.
Full episodeThursday, 10 March 2011
Detecting zoonoses, a new species of cumaceans or comma shrimps, modelling the anaesthetised brain, and restoring Shackelton’s Nimrod Hut in Antarctica.
Full episodeThursday, 3 March 2011
Land and Sea Bioblitz on Mana Island, full body vibration plates, Nobel prize-winner Sir Anthony Leggett, and extremophile microbes on Mount Erebus.
Full episodeThursday, 17 February 2011
An overnight sleep study to detect and treat sleep apnoea; the development of multicellularity; and space physics and the AARDDVARK project in Antarctica
Full episodeThursday, 10 February 2011
Bet hedging in microbes, 40 million year geological reconstruction of New Zealand, primary cilia, and emperor penguins in Antarctica.
Full episodeThe microscope image featured in the logo is of the mineral labradorite, taken by Peregrin Hyde – www.perescope.co.nz.
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