Science

The New Zealand data science programme, Taiao, aims to help researchers make sense of environmental data so they can make useful predictions to guide good decisions. Claire Concannon meets the team at… Audio

The Taiao programme, led by the University of Waikato, aims to create machine learning tools to help researchers wrangle with massive amounts of environmental data. Claire Concannon visits the team to… Audio

Some Adelie penguin colonies in Antarctica have been there for centuries. Which means there is a build up of thousands of years of penguin poo and carcasses. Warming temperatures will increase the… Audio

Our next guest says that it's hard to find Pasifika students at Honours level with STEM backgrounds. Pasifika are under represented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. The Government has… Audio

New research has found a strong link between strep skin infections and rheumatic fever.

University of Otago researchers investigated how streptococcal infections of the throat and skin are the first… Audio

Dinosaur hunters are real. Not the sort who battle them in the flesh like in Jurassic Park. In the early 20th century, finding the greatest dinosaur of all, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, became the obsession… Audio

Frequencies are all around us; everything on this earth vibrates, and even you, right now, are resonating at a frequency between about 5 and 10 hertz. And if all things resonate, then surely they must… Audio

Humanity is one small step closer to returning to the Moon this morning, thanks in part to some of New Zealand's top scientific minds.

Last night Rocket Lab successfully released NASA's CAPSTONE… Audio

Elite sporting bodies worldwide are barring transgender women from competing if they've experienced male puberty, all in the name of fairness – but The Detail finds out that the science isn't that… Audio

Professor Nicola Gaston, MacDiarmid Institute Co-Director and Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland, explores the science behind the multiverse. Audio

What do you think makes a song sound happy or sad?

Australian researchers have put their theories to the test, and they say it depends on your culture.

Dr Andrew Milne is a Senior Research Fellow in… Audio

On Asteroid Day, SpaceBase co-founder Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom asks if Asteroids will be Humanities doom or salvation. Audio

A new study shows stable housing is the first step towards improving health outcomes for young people who experience homelessness.

The Otago University report says a housing-first approach - without… Audio

PhD student Kiamaia Ellis describes crayfish as a vulnerable taonga species. Local iwi in Tauranga believe the crayfish population is decreasing because of urban, industrial and harvesting pressures… Audio

Both Mātauranga Māori and marine science are informing PhD student Kiamaia Ellis’s research into the resilience of baby crayfish.  Audio

Te Arawa Lakes Trust is running it's first Te Tukohu Ngawha Science and Design Fair from tomorrow. It has exhibits from tamariki and rangatahi, focused on blending matauranga Maori and western science… Audio

Science commentator Dr Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn to talk about research that's modelled how many lives were saved during the first year the vaccines were available, a catnip plant from Japan and… Audio

Rocket Lab has successfully launched the NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft from the Mahia Peninsula in Hawke's Bay.

It's the first step in NASA's mission to send humans back to the moon..

The launch… Audio

The University of Canterbury is leading a research collaboration with assistance from NASA's CAPSTONE mission team, which Rocket Lab is launching tonight. Wallace Chapman speaks to  Associate… Audio