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1:25 PM.In his book 'One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits' (Penguin Viking) Adam Skolnick looks at the incredible demands that competitive freediving places on the human body.

1:15 PM.Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith and US scientists develop a technique to fight cancer by reprogramming a body's immune cells. Also a 3D bioprinter that can build life-sized human organs. Read more Audio

1:01 PM.3D-printing human organs, the sport of freediving, a 'bionic spine' and listening to machines to detect faults. Audio

12:45 PM.Our tech correspondent Peter Griffin on a big week security-wise for Apple. Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Robotic seals in rest homes, and Apple's security challenges. Audio

1:40 PM.Paul Falkowski studies how the humble microbe has shaped human history in his book 'Life's Engines' (Princeton University Press). Read more Audio

1:25 PM.John Ashton of the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology at the Otago School of Medical Sciences looks at how the popular asthma reliever Ventolin works. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.Listener Jo thinks she's seeing fewer moths around. So is New Zealand's moth population falling? With moth specialist Robert Hoare of Landcare Research. Read more Audio

1:01 PM.Are there fewer moths about? How asthma inhalers work, and why microbes shaped human history. Audio

12:50 PM.Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith with news that researchers in the UK have used a cancer drug to block the process in the brain that leads to Alzheimer's disease. Also the severity of a dose of… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.Tech correspondent Peter Griffin on trouble in Twitter-land. Also the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it regards the computer onboard driverless cars in the same way as a human… Read more Audio

12:25 PM.Robin McKie of The Observer has been looking at gene edited crops. These may soon be blocked by EU regulators who are deciding if gene edited plants qualify as genetically modified organisms. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Professor Jack Feldman of UCLA and his team have just identified the part of the brain that transforms a normal breath into a sigh, a discovery that could help to treat people with breathing… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Sighs matter, gene editing crops, driverless cars, Twitter woes, 'neurostatins', and how your microbiome could make you more malaria resistant. Audio

1:45 PM.Toxicologist Ian Shaw explains how the body processes alcohol, and how drinking too much can do us damage. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Science news with Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists and a new approach to fighting flu, the latest on the Zika virus outbreak, and UK authorities approve the gene editing of human embryos.

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Technology news with Peter Griffin and Google aka Alphabet becomes the biggest business on the planet. There are also rumours that Amazon is planning to open a network of up to 400… Read more Audio

1:01 PM.Tech news (Google, Amazon and TPPA), latest science (flu, Zika virus and human gene editing) and what alcohol does to us. Audio

12:45 PM.Paul Smith is the Head of Testing at consumer.org.nz and he's been putting new vacuum cleaners through their paces. Read more Audio

12:25 PM.In her book First Bite: How We Learn To Eat (Fourth Estate) Bee Wilson examines the latest thinking on how we can change our flavour preferences. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Roger Anderson of The Jolly Roger Telephone Company is fed up with telemarketers. So rather than just hanging up when they call, he decided to fight back! Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Fighting back against telemarketers, how we learn to eat and a buyer's guide to the best vacuum cleaners. Audio

1:40 PM.Marine biologist Helen Scales celebrates the beauty and usefulness of seashells in her book 'Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells' (Bloomsbury Sigma). Read more Audio