All episodes
Saturday, 16 December 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 16 December 2017
- 12:15 Can microbes help us grow more food?
- 12:35 Bits+Bytes: Cryptojacking and the heavy-hitters dissing Facebook
- 12:45 The case of the ballooning wine glasses
- 12:55 Harnessing the power of evaporation
Saturday, 9 December 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 9 December 2017
- 12:15 Kill or cure? DIY gene therapies
- 12:30 Sensing cancer: real time tumour monitoring
- 12:35 Closing the packaging waste loop
- 12:50 Extending a warranty: is it worth it?
Saturday, 2 December 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 2 December 2017
- 12:15 Bird protection software
- 12:30 The future of AI and robotics
- 12:45 Could a pill replace exercise?
- 12:55 Bacteria: a companion for cancer?
Saturday, 25 November 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 25 November 2017
- 12:15 A new test for concussion
- 12:25 Cloud storage options - what's best?
- 12:40 A cut above? Testing lawnmowers
- 12:50 Powering Japan: mining undersea 'fire ice'
Saturday, 18 November 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 18 November 2017
- 12:15 Eat, Sleep, Read
- 12:25 Could schizophrenia be an immune disorder?
- 12:35 Maths education: praise works
- 12:45 Hunger pangs: solving the secrets of appetite
- 12:50 Netflix: inside the global entertainment network
Saturday, 11 November 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 11 November 2017
- 12:15 The Paradise Papers: tech tax revelations
- 12:30 Gene drives: not a silver bullet for killing pests
- 12:40 Science news: growing new skin and carbon nanotube warning
- 12:50 A players' union for professional video gamers?
Saturday, 4 November 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 4 November 2017
- 12:15 Laser strike: controlling insects using lasers
- 12:25 French flatbread: fougasse
- 12:40 Smart phone apps for disease diagnosis
- 12:50 The Vaccine Race
Saturday, 28 October 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 28 October 2017
- 12:15 Do filters make smoking more deadly?
- 12:25 Precision gene editing: a new approach
- 12:35 Lightning strikes and how to survive them
- 12:50 Tech news: the Facebook feed furore
Saturday, 21 October 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 21 October 2017
- 12:10 Opioid abuse - US crisis comes down under
- 12:30 Golden Bugs: mining e-waste for gold
- 12:40 What does a new government mean for the tech sector?
- 12:50 Science news: better faster?
Saturday, 14 October 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 14 October 2017
- 12:15 China Bitcoin Ban
- 12:20 A buyer's guide to cryptocurrencies
- 12:30 Reefer for Rover
- 12:40 Nemo's Garden - farming underwater
- 12:50 Why are so many of us on edge?
Saturday, 7 October 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 7 October 2017
- 12:15 Cleaning sucks, so which is the best stick vacuum?
- 12:20 Electroceuticals: turning off disease
- 12:30 Increase your size and strength! Mesh networking in the home
- 12:40 Sex medicine: treating men and women differently
- 12:55 Scientists discover high rates of pesticides in honey
Saturday, 30 September 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 30 September 2017
- 12:15 Sugar planet: rising CO2 adds carbs to crops
- 12:30 Sensing water quality
- 12:45 Learning to live with bad bugs
- 12:55 Tsunami debris carries marine life from Japan to the US
Saturday, 23 September 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 23 September 2017
- 12:15 Bleeding the kids dry
- 12:30 The Venezuelans mining Bitcoin to survive
- 12:40 Stopping humidity with shower domes
- 12:45 How dirty is your dish cloth?
- 12:50 Science news: MS gene therapy & electric eels
Saturday, 16 September 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 16 September 2017
- 12:15 CrossFit: a new religion?
- 12:30 Meet the 'food computer'
- 12:45 Adios, Cassini
- 12:50 The secret history of the iPhone
Saturday, 9 September 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 9 September 2017
- 12:15 The sand collector
- 12:30 Tech news: hurricane helpline app & Christchurch's all-electric car sharing scheme
- 12:40 Do compression garments work?
- 12:45 Could fingers hold the key to sporting success?
- 12:55 Why don't poisonous frogs poison themselves?
Saturday, 2 September 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 2 September 2017
- 12:15 Could brighter street lighting be harming our health?
- 12:30 Is Cuba using hidden sonic weapons to target foreign diplomats?
- 12:35 Which computer games have the most educational value?
- 12:50 How bacteria might stop sepsis infection
- 12:55 The theme park that's open to everyone
Saturday, 26 August 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 26 August 2017
- 12:15 The Science Of... Vitamin C
- 12:50 Tech talk: Worries over fake news & Samsung's new smartphone
Saturday, 19 August 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 19 August 2017
- 12:15 The Science of... Virtual Reality
- 12:50 Science news: Bird maps and genes that heal
Saturday, 12 August 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 12 August 2017
- 12:15 The Science of... Sweat
- 12:40 Insuring nature against damage
- 12:50 Carbon offsets: (how) do they work?
Saturday, 5 August 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 5 August 2017
- 12:15 A headset to measure earthquake damage
- 12:30 A rough ride for UBER in Asia
- 12:45 An embryonic heart defect was fixed with gene editing – so what now?
- 12:55 Artificial light = pollination peril
Saturday, 29 July 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 29 July 2017
- 12:15 Turning DNA into music
- 12:25 Beyond binary: storing data in DNA
- 12:35 Tech news: Amazon Down Under & more Facebook ads
- 12:45 Flush-free toilet: saving water and lives
- 12:55 Is our sense of smell making us fatter?
Saturday, 22 July 2017
- 12:50 How a balloon could help the world lose weight
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 22 July 2017
- 12:15 Directional highs: the future of marijuana?
- 12:25 The massive business of scientific publishing
- 12:40 Social cooling: toning down online behaviour
Saturday, 15 July 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 15 July 2017
- 12:15 Swab and Send: discovering new antibiotics
- 12:25 Seaweed: can it boost health?
- 12:35 How 3D printing can transform surfing
- 12:45 Anti-virus: could computers kill real life viruses?
- 12:55 The best way to wash your hands
Saturday, 8 July 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 8 July 2017
- 12:15 Pet poo problems
- 12:25 Selfie Nation
- 12:35 Weather bugs: microbes making rain
- 12:45 Biopaints: coating cells to control them
Saturday, 1 July 2017
- 12:01 This Way Up for Saturday 1 July 2017
- 12:15 Accuracy, power, and speed: practical shooting
- 12:30 Missing pieces in the code of life could play a role in cancer
- 12:40 Tech news: TVNZ live-streams, Google under scrutiny & another big cyber-attack
- 12:50 Why women live longer than men
