All episodes
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Takahe rearing unit at Burwood Bush; retrospective on New Zealand's role in International Polar Year; lakes and rivers under Antarctic ice, and rates of melting in polar regions; Fulvio Melia on super-massive black holes.
Full episodeThursday, 25 June 2009
Short-tailed bats in Fiordland; Square Kilometre Array; radio astronomy; mammal family tree.
Full episodeThursday, 18 June 2009
Operation Ark in Fiordland's Eglinton Valley; Mt Johns MOA (Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics) telescope; the BOOTES-3 gamma-ray telescope in a Marlborough vineyard; history of the Otago Medical School.
Full episodeThursday, 11 June 2009
Dennis Sullivan on white dwarfs and the death of stars; Phil Bishop explains chytrid disease in native frogs; fossils from a volcanic crater in Otago; long-lived deepsea corals and paleaoclimates.
Full episodeThursday, 4 June 2009
The history of optical astronomy in New Zealand; a discussion about iron fertilisation of the oceans; an update on the list of threatened birds; and the impact of a global warming event 50 million years ago.
Full episodeThursday, 28 May 2009
Regenerative medicine and the possibility of growing new body parts; Marcus Chown and the weird world of quantum theory; Wally Broecker on ways of dealing with rising greenhouse gas levels; Matt McGlone on how climate warming will affect New Zealand biodiversity.
Full episodeThursday, 21 May 2009
Larval dispersal of marine organisms; chemical sensors for managing chronic disease; searching the Kapiti Coast for fungi; and the comeback of southern right whales.
Full episodeThursday, 14 May 2009
Decline in Gibson's wandering albatross numbers; using nano-materials to generate electricity from waste heat; evolution of flowers and understanding invasive plant species; tuberculosis in humans and cattle.
Full episodeThursday, 7 May 2009
New Zealand sea lions in the subantarctic; nanotechnology - Annie Powell on copying biology; more on new Zealand ferns; George Denton on the history of Earth's ice ages.
Full episodeThursday, 30 April 2009
Julie McPherson on carbon nano-wires; Peter McClelland on introduced mammals in the subantartic; Patrick Brownsey and Leon Perrie on New Zealand ferns; Stephen Robertson on rare genetic diseases.
Full episodeThursday, 23 April 2009
Day-to-day routines in looking after kakapo on Codfish Island; Adelie penguin genetics; Richard Holdaway on moa extinctions; and royal albatrosses on Campbell Island.
Full episodeThursday, 16 April 2009
Mitigating visitor impacts on subantarctic Campbell Island; rivers and fish genetics; the Oligocene drowning; and Einstein's Universe.
Full episodeThursday, 9 April 2009
Bruce Robertson on kakapo genetics; Terry Chapin on Alaskan ecology; melting sea ice in the Arctic; and the Wellington carbon emission audit.
Full episodeThursday, 2 April 2009
Latest findings at a fossil site in Central Otago; Paul Callaghan's vision of reversing the brain drain; robins in Douglas fir plantations; and the final report from the Human Genome Research Project.
Full episodeThursday, 26 March 2009
How science has helped kakapo conservation efforts; the latest update on threatened plants; secondary school physics fight; Gordon Ell on gardening for wildlife.
Full episodeThursday, 19 March 2009
Sediment cores from Antarctica reveal changes in ice cover; a mission to find jewelled geckos on Otago Peninsula; genetic methods help unravel the evolution of Austronesian languages; and mohua population studies.
Full episodeThursday, 12 March 2009
Kakapo rediscovery and frozen sperm; tracing the great Pacific migration; Realise the Dream winners and finalists; and the tuatara mating system.
Full episodeThursday, 5 March 2009
Mysteries of life in the deep ocean; coastal ecology; snapper nurseries and recruitment; and the physics of Antarctic sea ice.
Full episodeThursday, 26 February 2009
Kakapo sperm collection and artificial insemination; evolution of whales and penguins; New Zealand's inventory of biodiversity; and robin genetics on Ulva Island.
Full episodeThursday, 19 February 2009
How an introduced frog survives being totally frozen; the role of colour in baby birds' mouths; whitebait recruitment in rivers; and tracing the migration of Pacific Bluefin Tuna.
Full episodeThursday, 12 February 2009
Celebrations to mark two centuries since Charles Darwin's birth; the importance of rimu fruit for breeding success in kakapo.
Full episodeThursday, 5 February 2009
Bringing seabirds back to Mana Island; the evolution and migration of pittosporum across the Pacific; Nobel laureate Harry Kroto recalls the discovery of C60.
Full episodeThursday, 29 January 2009
Kakapo scientists expect a bumper breeding season for the parrots; the migration of bull kelp; New Zealand's warm Eocene climate; a new approach to melanoma treatment.
Full episodeFriday, 26 December 2008
A school geology fieldtrip to Titahi Bay; a visit to the Centre of Conservation Medicine at Auckland Zoo; microbial survivers in extreme environments; and a night walk on Tiritiri Matangi Island.
Full episodeThursday, 18 December 2008
Fairy terns are New Zealand's rarest breeding bird; kokako on Tiritiri Matangi Island and kokako dialects; and how mice arrived in New Zealand.
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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