All episodes
Thursday, 17 May 2007
3D modelling of melanoma; mycologists and mushroom hunters; environmental refugees.
Full episodeThursday, 10 May 2007
Options for climate change mitigation; GM brassicas trial (part 2); geohazard research and engineering; reducing blood clotting to prevent recurrent miscarriages.
Full episodeThursday, 3 May 2007
Ocean twilight zone; GM brassicas trial (part 1); alcoholic rats; Otara health.
Full episodeThursday, 26 April 2007
Australian synchrotron; OECD environmental report; physiome project.
Full episodeThursday, 19 April 2007
Southern Hemisphere's first ice core research facility; Argentine ants; tracing human migration using fossil pig DNA; lipo-protein and vascular disease.
Full episodeThursday, 12 April 2007
IPCC report on climate change; ancient land mammal fossil; evolutionary bursts; protein for brain health.
Full episodeThursday, 5 April 2007
Bioblitz catalogue of species at Wellington's Otari Wilton's Bush; deciphering climate information from tree rings; Vanuatu's forests; pain relief.
Full episodeThursday, 29 March 2007
Ice cores; Prue Taylor and climate change; physics of clouds and rain; elder care.
Full episodeThursday, 22 March 2007
Alan MacDiarmid memorial service; neuroscientist Steven Rose; Eco-Minds Forum in Bangkok; Catwalk Trust for research into spinal cord injuries.
Full episodeThursday, 15 March 2007
Climate science modelling; saving black rhinos from extinction; a review of New Zealand's biodiversity strategy; viral transmission from cell to cell.
Full episodeThursday, 8 March 2007
Microbes in Antarctica's Dry Valleys; Nobel laureate Jean Marie Lehn and molecular recognition processes; the return of kiwi to mainland New Zealand; new treatments for Parkinson's disease.
Full episodeThursday, 1 March 2007
Definitions of sustainability; listening to slow, silent land deformations; Nobel laureate Harry Kroto and a new form of carbon.
Full episodeThursday, 22 February 2007
How stem cells migrate through the brain; non-lethal methods of studying whale population dynamics (part 2); Albert Jones and his discovery of a supernova.
Full episodeThursday, 15 February 2007
Antarctica's historic huts; 2006 Hamilton Memorial Prize recipient and research into the foetal origins of adult disease; non-lethal methods of studying whale population dynamics (part 1).
Full episodeThursday, 8 February 2007
Tribute to Alan MacDiarmid; Japan's scientific whaling programme; annual astronomy event Stardate; the IPCC report about climate change; growth hormone and breast cancer.
Full episodeThursday, 1 February 2007
Preview of the IPCC report about climate change; Antartica's Dry Valleys; pest management; genetics and addictive tendencies.
Full episodeThursday, 25 January 2007
The Comet McNaught; how to attract kereru into urban gardens; Te Papa's curator of insects; problem gambling.
Full episodeThursday, 21 December 2006
Studying icecores from Mt Erebus; how gold deposits form in hydrothermal areas; NIWA tags snapper in the Hauraki Gulf; ISAAC, the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood
Full episodeThursday, 14 December 2006
NIWA research ocean climate change expedition; the Antartica Cruising Guide; international men's health survey
Full episodeThursday, 7 December 2006
The Antarctic Drilling Project; fish research at Scott Base; wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia
Full episodeThursday, 30 November 2006
Ozone depletion; rainforest destruction in Indonesia and Malaysia; author George Gibbs on his book ‘Ghosts of Gondwana’; National Centre for Heart Health
Full episodeThursday, 23 November 2006
Author David Young and ecologist Murray Williams discuss ‘Whio’, a new book about the blue duck; laser treatment for skin
Full episodeThursday, 16 November 2006
Ted Baker receives New Zealand's highest science honour, the Rutherford Medal; latest advances in forensic DNA technology; Alan Tennyson, author of a book about New Zealand's extinct birds; Never2old, a campaign to encourage older people to exercise
Full episodeThursday, 9 November 2006
Genome of the honey bee; the latest crime-solving tool, Low Copy Number; silk industry in Cambodia (part 2); schizophrenia
Full episodeThursday, 2 November 2006
Silk industry in Cambodia (part 1); using algae to produce biofuels and hydrogen; how diet helps to keep our bones healthy; tuberculosis and the need for new vaccines
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