All episodes
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Singing scientist Matthew Barnett's research on epigenetics, bioengineering boot camp for bone cells, using blood to make plastic, Waikatolink, and beeswax as a drug delivery system.
Full episodeThursday, 8 July 2010
Investigating a blue-green algal bloom in Lake Rotorua, the diet of tree weta, the clinical trials facility tour continues, and amateur astronomy with a visit to a backyard observatory.
Full episodeThursday, 1 July 2010
Sex lives of stick insects with Mary Morgan-Richards, clinical trials facility part one, bio-archaeology and child and infant health in South East Asia, and a high school chemistry titration competition.
Full episodeThursday, 24 June 2010
New Zealand sea lions on the Otago Peninsula, Zonta Award and preventing cataracts, Gough Island and killer mice, genes and smell.
Full episodeThursday, 17 June 2010
Gene therapy and cancer, carbohydrates and exercise, thin film optics, and cyanobacteria producing hydrogen as a renewable energy source.
Full episodeThursday, 10 June 2010
Recording little spotted kiwi calls, recording the brain during microsleeps, rediscovery of the taiko, and a wave energy device.
Full episodeThursday, 3 June 2010
Taiko burrow check on the Chatham Islands, computers and hand-drawn diagrams, non-invasive urine test to detect kidney transplant rejection, and pathology lab tour part 3
Full episodeThursday, 27 May 2010
Part 2 of tour of Aotea Pathology laboratory, Sweetwater Covenant in the Chathams, supercritical fluid extraction, and a new book on New Zealand's Coastal Marine Invertebrates
Full episodeThursday, 20 May 2010
Radio-carbon dating bones from Cambodian funeral jars, Cook’s scurvy grass in the Chathams, the impact of invisible volcanic ash on health, and part one of a tour of the Aotea Pathology laboratories
Full episodeThursday, 13 May 2010
Fossil hunting, tidal energy potential of Cook Strait, making glass for imaging x-rays and other radiation, and creating 3D laser scans of Moriori tree carvings.
Full episodeThursday, 6 May 2010
Methane hydrates or 'burning ice', RNA and the origins of life, Chatham Island dune restoration, and using lasers to sort cells at the Malaghan Institute
Full episodeThursday, 29 April 2010
Release of the Chatham Island tui - Part 2, the search for an effective tuberculosis vaccine, a new book on New Zealand’s threatened plants, and virtual water and water footprints.
Full episodeThursday, 22 April 2010
Gastric bypass as a possible cure for type 2 diabetes, coastal erosion on rocky shores, and catching Chatham island tui for a translocation from Rangatira Island.
Full episodeThursday, 15 April 2010
Testing sporting equipment, emulsified diesel, tasting fat with Matt Golding, and Chatham Island oystercatchers
Full episodeThursday, 8 April 2010
Chatham Islands series on Mangere Island revegetation; Roy Kerr and black holes; ice crystals; blackcurrants and asthma.
Full episodeThursday, 1 April 2010
Rangatira Island at night with Abi Liddy and Graeme Taylor, artificial mouth at the Dental Research Group, New Zealand's poisonous plants, and how hookworms may help cure disease
Full episodeThursday, 25 March 2010
The Prime Minister’s Future Scientist and winner of the Supreme Award in the Royal Society’s 2009 Realise the Dream Competition on optical tubes, high performance ceramics, Chatham petrels and part two of the cicada story
Full episodeThursday, 18 March 2010
A new series on the Chatham Islands features South East Island, using sound to measure the density of kiwi fruit, part one of a story on Chris Simon and cicadas, and synaptic connections of neurons.
Full episodeThursday, 11 March 2010
Prime Minister's Science Prize co-winner Jeff Tallon from IRL on superconductors; monitoring the Heathcote Estaury to measure the effect of the new wastewater diversion; the Australia-New Zealand Whale Research Expedition; the New Zealand Human Brain Bank.
Full episodeThursday, 4 March 2010
Greening Waipara - ecologists and vineyards collaborate to increase biodiversity; mast seeding in snow tussocks; solving chemical equations using a supercomputer; developing enzyme inhibitors to cure diseases from malaria to gout.
Full episodeThursday, 25 February 2010
Developing beneficial soil fungi products to improve the growth of plants; setting up an ecological experiment to test the role of millipedes in native forest; the sound of an earthquake and developing geothermal resources; new treatments for strokes.
Full episodeThursday, 18 February 2010
A Bose-Einstein Condensate is created in the lab; the New Zealand Biotron; electrical activity of the stomach, and tracing taro around the globe
Full episodeThursday, 11 February 2010
Tracing plants like cannabis using forensic science, the black stilt captive breeding programme near Twizel, New Zealand native trees, and viruses inside crystals.
Full episodeThursday, 4 February 2010
MRI and imaging the heart with Alistair Young; Project River Recovery in the Mackenzie Basin; GNS Science geology summer school; forensic science part 2 - identifying threatened wildlife being used in traditional medicine.
Full episodeThursday, 28 January 2010
JOIDES Resolution deep-sea drilling ship; short-haired bumblebee poject with Nikki Gammans; cell membranes with Duncan McGillivray; ESR forensic science part 1 - aging stains.
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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