All episodes
Thursday, 24 December 2009
Godwits part two - the godwits have been caught and data loggers are being retrieved; how the brain remembers past and future events; a mathematician looks at the role calcium plays in the lungs, saliva secretion and asthma; the Asian paddle crab is a new, aggressive introduction in Auckland waters.
Full episodeThursday, 17 December 2009
Cannon netting godwits at the Manawatu Estuary; how x-ray crystallography is used today; the potential of adult stem cells to cure corneal disease; and how sea cucumbers could be used to clean up under mussel farms.
Full episodeThursday, 10 December 2009
Andy Reisinger on latest climate change science; Hugh Blair on sheep foetal programming; looking at yellow-eyed penguin deaths and capture myopathy in godwits at Wildlife Health Centre; and how crab larvae use sound to choose where to live.
Full episodeThursday, 3 December 2009
Using biofilms to measure a stream's health and test Hubbell's neutral theory; ice core drilling on the Greenland ice cap; how a pregnant woman's diet may impact her daughter's age of puberty; and recording the sounds made by fish.
Full episodeThursday, 26 November 2009
Entomologist John Early from Auckland Museum on insects in the collection; Massey University's Shane Cronin and colleagues talk about lahars, the Auckland volcano field, and explosive eruptions; and Leigh Marine Laboratory's Andrew Jeffs on crayfish larvae.
Full episodeThursday, 19 November 2009
A tour of clinical drug making facility GlycoSyn; why tectonic plates lock and the implications for earthquake prediction;award-winning author Neville Peat talks about nature writing, and Leigh Marine Lab's Craig Radford on the sounds made by creatures living on rocky reefs
Full episodeThursday, 12 November 2009
The first story in an ocean science series at the University of Auckland’s Leigh Marine Laboratory; dissecting human bodies at the University of Otago’s medical school; biomineralisation and how scientists are trying to replicate the process, and using an ion implanter to make new materials with nanowhiskers.
Full episodeThursday, 5 November 2009
Biofilters that use bacteria in volcanic soils to eat methane; the Pupu micro-hydro scheme and feed-in tariffs for distributed energy generation; food and skin induced allergic reactions; and anarchy genes and altruism genes in bees.
Full episodeThursday, 29 October 2009
Analysing the different flavours and aromas of apples to produce new varieties; using DNA techniques to analyse the evolution of medieval texts; a new biological x-ray tomography microscope; and the microbes that live in the gut of honeydew scale insects.
Full episodeThursday, 22 October 2009
Astronauts, the elderly and how the body's balance system regulates brain blood flow, using molecular markers to genetically screen plants, the ecology of honeydew, and sampling marine larvae in Antarctica.
Full episodeThursday, 15 October 2009
Ajay Kupar builds, and performs with, musical robots; Olin Pilcher gives a tour of the Cawthron Institute's new Pacific oyster hatchery; NIWA's Stuart Hanchet provides a fisheries biologist perspective to the Antarctic toothfish fishery; Robert Weinkove is developing a new therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
Full episodeThursday, 8 October 2009
Grant Norbury and a new giant skink reserve near Alexandra; Glenn McGregor on climate change, heat waves and human health; Tim Molteno and Keith Payne are developing novel animal tags using GPS and mobile phone networks; and Matthew Gerrie leads the Innocence Project NZ.
Full episodeThursday, 1 October 2009
Simon Cox from GNS on the aftermath of the big Fiordland earthquake; Juliet Sutherland and Douglas Rosendale from Plant and Food on gut flora; Victoria University's Matt Gers and Ben Jeffares on memes and memetics; John Flenley on Easter Island pollen.
Full episodeThursday, 24 September 2009
Vet Kerri Morgan and the animal patients at the New Zealand Wildlife Health Centre; a booster broccoli with high glucosinolates; using the Australian Synchrotron to test for selenium in broccoli; and wildlife photographer Tui de Roy's new Galapagos Islands book.
Full episodeThursday, 17 September 2009
Conservation Week and Karori Sanctuary volunteers; at the Sleep/Wake Centre Ruth Beran finds out how sleep is measured and why they are testing long-haul airline pilots and pregnant women; tree planting and predator trapping with the Nelson branch of Forest and Bird.
Full episodeThursday, 10 September 2009
Massey University's Mike Joy talks about freshwater fish and river pollution, Ashton Partridge from Massey University, and Richard Tilley and Justin Hodgkiss from Victoria University, are developing printable solar cells, and John Kendrick, the man behind the Morning Report bird calls.
Full episodeThursday, 3 September 2009
Kevin Burns' hypothesis that the now extinct moa influenced how the native lancewood grows; IRL's new way of capturing carbon dioxide; and Otago University researchers working out how animals move, and using that knowledge to develop computer and biomechanical models, and even robots.
Full episodeThursday, 27 August 2009
John Watt is 2009 MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year for nano-crystal research; Te Papa's new vertebrate Collection Facility; GNS Science research on air particulates using a particle accelerator; Julia Horsfield on the University of Otago's new zebrafish facility.
Full episodeThursday, 20 August 2009
Small-scale distributed electricity generation with Massey University and IRL; ice core drilling in the Southern Alps with GNS Science; Crustacea and NIWA's Marine Invertebrate Collection; how radio works with RNZ's Matthew Finn.
Full episodeThursday, 13 August 2009
Jim Johnston's Victoria University team are using the colour-changing properties of quantum nanodots for ink-jet printing; Te Papa’s Andrew Stewart and NIWA’s Dennis Gordon talk about the New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity; Leo Schep from the National Poisons Centre on New Zealand’s venomous creatures; Jacqui Horswell, Tom Speir and Andrew Van Schaik from ESR on biosolids, and applying them to land.
Full episodeThursday, 6 August 2009
Malaria with Colin Sutherland; Dallas Mildenhall uses pollen to track fake pharmaceuticals; Dillon Mayhew explains his love of mathematical constructs called matroids; Peter Dearden on how honeybees can produce two morphologies from a single genome.
Full episodeThursday, 30 July 2009
Hamish Spencer and Diane Paul on cousin marriage; Dallas Mildenhall on forensic palynology; restoring Resolution and Secretary islands in Fiordland; Ken Ryan and microorganisms in Antarctic sea ice.
Full episodeThursday, 23 July 2009
Green chemistry with Mary Kirchoff and Emma Dangerfield; NIWA's Mark Morrison on land-based impacts on coastal fisheries; Department of Conservation's stoat trapping efforts to save takahe in Fiordland; John Watling on how chemical signatures can help trace the origins of substances and solve crimes.
Full episodeThursday, 16 July 2009
A Fiordland kiwi hunt with Jane Tansell; high temperature superconductors with Bob Buckley; great white sharks with Malcolm Francis and Clinton Duffy.
Full episodeThursday, 9 July 2009
In the soundtrack from the film Oops, Wrong Planet, Australian film-maker Stephen Ramsey goes in search of people living with Asperger syndrome.
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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