Science

An Auckland startup has been approved to scale up its production of dairy proteins using genetically modified yeasts. Daisy Lab uses precision fermentation to make whey or casein products.  Audio

Spoiler Alert: In the Christopher Nolan movie Interstellar, an astronaut gets sucked into a black hole but manages to communicate with his daughter and find his way out. Richard Easther tells us the… Audio

Greedy corporations seeking Unobtainium are the bad guys in James Cameron's Avatar movie franchise. Associate Professor Nicola Gaston discusses the parallels between the fictional mineral and solid… Audio

Rodrigo Martinez Gazoni chats with Bryan Crump about the scientific plausibility of Batman's cape and some of his other gadgets. Audio

A deadly frog fungus has decimated frog populations around the world, but frog biodiversity hotspot Papua New Guinea remains untouched – for now. In this episode of ABC podcast Pacific Scientific… Audio

Dr Jade De La Paz, is a Professional Forensic Anthropologist at the University of Otago and she's also one of only four people from Aotearoa to be a Fellow in the American Academy of Forensic… Audio

BabyX is an interactive AI model of an 18 month old. It was originally launched in 2013, by then Auckland University researcher Mark Sagar. Over the last 10 years it's been developed and improved, to… Audio

Science commentator Laurie Winkless joins Kathryn to talk about new research that's used tree rings to confirm last year's northern hemisphere summer was the hottest in 2000 years. Audio

The Starship Enterprise crew's tricorders have a multitude of uses, from scanning a new planet's surface to staff health checks. Dr Michel Nieuwoudt chats about whether we could even construct such a… Audio

A new international study has shown how the population of bacteria on a person's skin leaves a trace on the clothes they wear and can be identified months after the transfer. Audio

Electricity - how do we generate it, how does it get from a hydro-station to our kettles, and where is the technology involved heading?  Audio

In Larry Niven's 1970 science fiction novel, Louis Wu and his companions crash land on a rotating ring world constructed by aliens. Dr Chris Bumby and Bryan Crump discuss whether we might one day… Audio