Science
Inside the icy first voyage to unlock Antarctica's million-year-old secrets
Researchers are on an icy Antarctic journey to drill deep into a million-year-old ice core, to sample air pockets which will reveal secrets about how the climate has changed.
Start small with new year's exercise resolutions
Opinion - Plans to exercise more in the new year are often broken within a month. So how can we exercise more regularly in the new year? Sports scientist Ken Nosaka has tips.
How artificial intelligence may help us avoid ocean rips
Beachgoers could be safer thanks to a new technology with the potential to give real-time updates of rip currents.
Nature's best: Our Changing World's 2022 highlights
Our Changing World has compiled a best of list for 2022 - perfect for summer listening and road trips.
10 times this year the Webb telescope blew us away
A year on since the historic launch of the most powerful infrared telescope in human history, we admire and explore some of the best images it delivered in 2022.
Second rare bird killed in six months on Taranaki roads
The large stocky herons - one of the rarest wetland birds in the world - are notoriously secretive and deemed nationally critical in New Zealand.
Antarctica Christmas 'like your own private bach'
A New Zealand freshwater professor working in Antarctica says efforts are being made to make Christmas day there feel as "traditional" as possible.
Kiwi-led breakthrough in fighting breast cancer
A global study led by the University of Otago has discovered a way to reduce the risk of breast cancer. Audio
Possible gene alteration to reduce breast cancer risk found
Researchers at Otago University believe they've discovered a gene alteration that could reduce the risk of breast cancer.
It could have a significant impact on those who inherit the BRCA-1 gene… Audio
Summer science: Two stories about genetics
Two stories about genetics produced by students at the University of Otago's Department of Science Communication. Amanda Konyn investigates whether gene editing has a role in future pest control… Audio
Is there a future for gene editing in pest control?
Amanda Konyn, a student at the University of Otago's Department of Science Communication, investigates whether gene editing has a role in future pest control. Audio
World first at Dunedin Wildlife Hospital, hatching Hoiho
Dunedin Wildlife Hospital recently achieved a world first, incubating and hatching Hoiho, yellow eyed penguin eggs in the hospital. Director and Senior Wildlife Veterinarian, Dr Lisa Argilla talks to… Audio
The ongoing impact of the Hunga Tonga eruption
Almost a year on from Tonga's devastating undersea volcanic eruption, volcanologist Shane Cronin asseses the impact and implications for monitoring other Pacific fault lines. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha… Audio
Bad hangovers? Genetics and personality can make a difference
Certain genes and personality traits may explain why some people can hardly function the day after a night of drinking.
Principal experimentalist explains nuclear fusion breakthrough
Recreating nuclear fusion - the reaction that powers stars including our sun - is seen as the holy grail of energy technology, holding potential to create a near-unlimited source of safe clean energy… Audio, Gallery
NASA discovers two new 'water world' planets
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer telescopes have made a discovery which has brought them a micro-step closer to confirming that planets beyond our own might harbour Earth-like oceans. Video
What does the world look like through a chiton's eyes?
Have you ever thought about what a chiton can actually see? They are the hard shell mollusc that sticks to rocks, and looks a bit like an armoured slug. Well they aren't sightless. Marine scientist… Audio
Scientific breakthrough in recreating nuclear fusion
Scientists are abuzz after a major breakthrough in the race to recreate nuclear fusion. Physicists have pursued the technology for decades, but what have they found? Dr David Krofcheck is a senior… Audio
An eye in the sky to detect methane emissions
MethaneSAT is the first New Zealand government funded space mission. A joint project between the United States' Environmental Defense Fund and New Zealand, the project will see a methane sensing… Audio
'It gave me shivers': Sound of 'dust devil' captured on Mars for first time
Scientists are thrilled to have recorded the sound of a dust devil - a small but violent whirlwind - from planet Mars for the first time.
