Nights for Thursday 16 September 2010

7:15 Star Search

Bruce Allen, director of Observational Relativity and Cosmology, Albert Einstein Institute

How the Einstein@Home volunteer computing project allowed three 'citizen scientists' to discover a pulsar...

7:30 Spectrum

People, places and events in New Zealand.

8 pm News and Weather

8:15 Windows on the World

International public radio documentaries.

8:45 Science: Earth Sciences

Dr Hamish Campbell, Geologist/Paleontologist, GNS Science

Drilling a core into the geologic cycle... the Christchurch earthquake, Saturday 4 September 2010, and it's subsequent aftershocks.

8:59 Conundrum: Clue 7

9 pm News and Weather

9:06 Our Changing World

Radio New Zealand's science and environment programme.

9:59 Conundrum: Clue 8

10 pm News and Weather

10:17 Late Edition

A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.

11 pm News and Weather

11:06 The Music Mix

Nick Atkinson presents a contemporary music magazine with interviews and music from New Zealand and overseas artists, coverage of new releases, tours, live sessions, music festivals and events. (RNZ)