All episodes
Thursday, 11 December 2008
The life and science of Ernest Rutherford; robins on Tiritiri Matangi Island; and a book about the Chatham Islands.
Full episodeThursday, 4 December 2008
Hihi on Tiritiri Matangi Island; the diversity of deep-sea corals in New Zealand waters; fossils and climate information from a maar crater in Otago; and a book about New Zealanders and nature.
Full episodeThursday, 27 November 2008
First part in a series about Tiritiri Matangi Island; the discovery of a now extinct penguin; the life and science of James Hector; and the Polynesian iconoclasm.
Full episodeThursday, 20 November 2008
The diversity and beauty of lichens; accidental by-catch of albatrosses; the impact of ocean acidification; and factors that contribute to a specie's risk of extinction.
Full episodeThursday, 13 November 2008
Shark genetics; Massey University biophysicist David Parry receives 2008 Rutherford Medal; bees and anaesthesia; impacts of acidifying oceans.
Full episodeThursday, 6 November 2008
The love songs of Weddell seals; a long-term starling study; Auckland's volcanic field; geological mapping.
Full episodeThursday, 30 October 2008
Flightless teal; Rutherford's great-granddaughter talks about his legacy; preparing for New Zealand's first rocket launch.
Full episodeThursday, 23 October 2008
Budding marine biologists head out to sea; the collapse of the Easter Island civilisation; quantum whirlpools; new ways of sequestering carbon.
Full episodeThursday, 16 October 2008
Breeding apricots; carnivorous plants; and climate histories from ice cores.
Full episodeThursday, 9 October 2008
Native plant alternatives for the garden; Heart function; Crops and pasture grasses; Organic certifier BioGro.
Full episodeThursday, 2 October 2008
EDay; Flightless Birds; Particle Physics; Chris Smith talks to Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees and psychiatry professor Paul Fletcher.
Full episodeThursday, 25 September 2008
New Imaging Technologies; Bees in Decline; virologist Chris Smith takes punting on the river Cam.
Full episodeThursday, 18 September 2008
Large Hadron Collider; Healthy Honey; Science Anthology; Arctic Climate Change.
Full episodeThursday, 11 September 2008
New Marine Reserve; Native Birds' Comeback; Peripatus; Marine Invertebrates
Full episodeThursday, 4 September 2008
Robots as servants; no-tillage agriculture; design concepts to avoid waste; author Bernard Beckett.
Full episodeThursday, 28 August 2008
Science of winemaking; Wellington regional science fair; Charles Fleming lecture; possums in Australia.
Full episodeThursday, 21 August 2008
Robotic kiwifruit picker; Bob Kerr paintings of Harold Wellman's life; Makara Foreshore Reserve; photographer Tui de Roy on albatrosses.
Full episodeThursday, 14 August 2008
MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year; Alzheimer's research; self assembly in emulsions; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Full episodeThursday, 7 August 2008
Water dimers in the atmosphere; health impacts of poor housing; stormwater; physiological challenges at Beijing Olympics.
Full episodeThursday, 31 July 2008
Severe weather and flood forecasting; Cancer stem cells research; Squid gel for in sinus surgery; Isotope signatures
Full episodeThursday, 24 July 2008
Sugars and allergies; Protecting Hector's dolphins; Music for Maui's CD; Campbell Island revisited
Full episodeThursday, 17 July 2008
Antarctic nematodes; Off-shore wind power; Gout research; New nano-materials
Full episodeThursday, 3 July 2008
Census of marine creatures; plastic drinking bottles; carbon offsetting; Canterbury natural history
Full episodeThursday, 26 June 2008
Little Blue Penguin; Canterbury invertebrates; ageing research; Canada's environmental record
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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