All episodes
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Ice crystals underneath Antarctic sea ice, fungal drug resistance and efflux pumps, and the Motueka River Integrated Catchment Management programme.
Full episodeThursday, 27 January 2011
Alcohol and exercise, surveying small sharks in estuaries, hormones and boy's brains, and the first Antarctic Science series story on sea ice.
Full episodeThursday, 23 December 2010
Sir Peter Gluckman’s connections with Sir Edmund Hillary, magnetism and North Pole South Pole, and some updates from this year – including a gastric bypass operation patient, the JOIDES Resolution, bumblebees, rare birds on the Chatham Islands, and music of the stars.
Full episodeThursday, 16 December 2010
A two part story on preserving old films, air pollution, transferring old films to digital, and water repellent soils (hydrophobicity).
Full episodeThursday, 9 December 2010
50 years of lasers, realism and surrealism about science, and a Meccano exhibition.
Full episodeThursday, 2 December 2010
Wellington zoo wildlife health centre, Raman spectroscopy, and traces of fossil microbes in rocks
Full episodeThursday, 25 November 2010
A new mechanism to regulate protein production, Kiwistar Optics telescope lenses and HERMES, genes that control flowering time in plants, and medicinal chemistry and drugs from nature.
Full episodeThursday, 18 November 2010
Black mudfish, and restoring Kaituna Lake at Horsham Downs in the Waikato, modeling mammograms and the human breast, and creating carbohydrates and sugars as therapeutics.
Full episodeThursday, 11 November 2010
Gel actuators and robot muscles, hemp and composite polymers, discovery and attribution, and photodegradation and carbon dioxide production from soil
Full episodeThursday, 4 November 2010
Urban restoration in Hamilton, porphyrins and boron, and a potential drug for stroke recovery
Full episodeThursday, 28 October 2010
Race horses and the momentum effect; sequencing genomes; and little blue penguins on Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour.
Full episodeThursday, 21 October 2010
Optical tweezers, spontaneous combustion, testing load failure in cardboard boxes, catalysis.
Full episodeThursday, 14 October 2010
Disaster robots with Dale Carnegie; a virtual hearing patient; science, philosophy and belief; developing high-value uses for marine by-products.
Full episodeThursday, 7 October 2010
Cats, skin cancer and feline papillomavirus, the Wellington harbour bird survey, and scientific glassblowing
Full episodeThursday, 30 September 2010
Seeing a single atom; seamounts and the Census of Marine Life; evolutionary mathematics, and sea slugs, tetrodotoxin and dog deaths on Auckland beaches.
Full episodeThursday, 23 September 2010
Vision perception with John Perrone; Parkinson's disease and virtual reality rehabilitation; quantifying how animals feel pain; and Dunedin science expo 'Feeding the Mind'
Full episodeThursday, 16 September 2010
Music of the stars, tree planting for Conservation Week, and rugby players clean the beach, and the psychology of killing and gang initiation.
Full episodeThursday, 9 September 2010
Measuring carbon flux in soils on farms; developing a cryocooler to use with high temperature superconductors; using sea shells in orthopaedic implants; and meningococci bacteria are capable of suriving outside a host
Full episodeThursday, 2 September 2010
Personal UV dosimeters to measure ultraviolet radiation levels, and The Acid Test, a feature on ocean acidification resulting from increasing carbon dioxide levels in the world's oceans
Full episodeThursday, 26 August 2010
Glow worm hunting to find light emitting proteins, a tribute to Sir Graham (Mont) Liggins, and creating new foods with slower digesting carbohydrates.
Full episodeThursday, 19 August 2010
The world’s youngest rocks, mosquitoes and emerging diseases, ethnobotany and ‘canoe plants’ of the Pacific, and thin ceramic films.
Full episodeThursday, 12 August 2010
Exploring Rutherford's Den with some Year 12 Christ's College students, Waikato River research, and dysphagia (or swallowing difficulties).
Full episodeThursday, 5 August 2010
The butterfly house at Otago Museum, a model of the knee, paua research in the East Otago Taiapure, and a mechanism showing that Vitamin C prevents cancer.
Full episodeThursday, 29 July 2010
Determining decomposition time of submerged bodies; forensics of bite marks and bacteria on teeth; the Science Learning Hub; and a tour of the Otago Museum natural sciences collection.
Full episodeThursday, 22 July 2010
Plasticity, “lazy eye” (or amblyopia) and the adult brain; NIWA's supercomputer, quantum storage, and a seed bank specialising in grasses and clovers.
Full episodeThe microscope image featured in the logo is of the mineral labradorite, taken by Peregrin Hyde – www.perescope.co.nz.
Thursdays 7:30pm, repeated 1:15am Sundays. One feature plays 3:35pm Wednesdays.
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