Up This Way

Belinda Castles shares the Consumer NZ findings on fly sprays. Read more Audio

Music is great. But what if it could be nutritious as well? Simon Morton speaks to Daniel Battaglia, Music Director of the Long Island Vegetable Orchestra, about turning tubers into music makers. Read more Audio, Gallery

Australia takes 20 thousand refugees, migrants and asylum seekers ever year but those who arrive by boat are detained off shore. The situation on Manus and Nauru reached boiling point last year, with… Read more Audio

Flawed computer chips, Spotify gets ready to go public as it gets sued for using unlicensed music, why facial recognition will be big in 2018, and another faulty Apple product, this time an iPad… Read more Audio

Sports presenter and former rugby player Melodie Robinson tells Simon Morton what has caught her eye in the sports world this week. Surely we've gotta mention the ASB classic... Read more Audio

Citizen science has been around a while now, a chance for amateurs to get involved with volunteering and for scientists to get help with collecting data.

But a kiwi group is going further. Government… Read more Audio

An 11,000-year-old skeleton of two children, unearthed in Alaska, is yet another part of the story of where Native Americans come form.

The baby girl's bones have helped clear a few things up thanks… Read more Audio

King tides, power outages, flooding - the country's already been battered by its first storm of the year and we're only six days in. The torrential rain swept across the top of the North Island before… Read more Audio

When CRISPR hit the news a few years ago it sounded like magic - now we can turn on and off genes at will  and it was different to traditional GM technology that introduced genes from one species to… Read more Audio

Some people claim nuts are even healthier when they're 'activated' by soaking. But while it's a good idea to soak legumes and grains, leave your nuts alone, says Rachel Brown from Otago University's… Read more Audio

Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 is a compilation put together by archival music specialists Light In The Attic Records. For the keen crate digger, groups with names like… Read more Audio

Writer and journalist Jon Ronson has made a career out of investigating unusual characters. He explores the porn industry in his podcast series The Butterfly Effect. Read more Audio