All episodes
Thursday, 25 February 2016
- 9:06 Technology and learning
- 9:20 Antarctica's ice sheets more sensitive to warming
- 9:25 Booming kakapo numbers
- 9:30 Taiko take off
- 9:33 An albatross chick's flowerpot is its castle
- 9:35 Facing the reality of climate change
- 9:46 Hangi stones and magnetism
Thursday, 18 February 2016
- 9:06 Beetle versus spider
- 9:20 Cheaper, greener and bendier solar cells
- 9:34 Spotted skinks on the move
- 9:45 Eye of the storm - climate change in the Pacific
Thursday, 11 February 2016
- 9:10 In pursuit of the yellow octopus
- 9:20 Ecoblitz
- 9:50 Could Alzheimers disease be preventable?
- 9:55 LIGO 'sees' gravitational waves
Thursday, 4 February 2016
- 12:00 UK gives go-ahead for DNA editing of human embryos
- 9:06 Booming bitterns
- 9:20 Sexism in science
- 9:34 Gold nuggets - formed by bacteria?
- 9:45 Convicted for science
- 9:50 Genome sequencing every living kakapo
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Nanocamp for secondary school students, introduced species in Antarctica, and developing super lures for rats and possums using pheromones in urine
Full episodeThursday, 21 January 2016
Lake Wanaka's grebes, New Zealand's super genetic diversity and the Africa to Aotearoa Project, defining the Anthropocene, moreporks on Banks Peninsula and 2016 kakapo breeding season off to a racing start
Full episodeMonday, 11 January 2016
- 9:06 Medical Maggots for Wound Healing
- 9:06 The Art and Science of Beer
- 9:34 Brain Training to Slow Progression of Huntington's Disease
- 9:06 Testing Volcanic Ballistics with a Cannon and Catapult
- 9:06 Say a prayer for me
- 9:20 Dark skies, happy aurora watchers
Monday, 4 January 2016
- 9:20 Expedition to Subantarctic Antipodes Island
- 9:06 Black Petrels - New Zealand's Most At-Risk Seabird
- 9:34 Flower of the Underworld - A Parasitic Treasure
- 9:20 Mission Complete: New Zealand's first ocean glider takes to the seas
- 9:06 Gearhead Granny
- 9:20 Coastal erosion: people versus nature
- 9:36 Living with Parkinson's disease
- 9:40 Urban wildlife - should we care?
- 9:45 A possum-free Otago Peninsula
Monday, 28 December 2015
- 9:06 Time Travelling through Mead Stream Gorge
- 9:46 Rare Mudfish, the Farmer and the School
- 9:06 Tracking the Lapita Expansion Across the Pacific
- 9:06 To Catch a Trapdoor Spider
Thursday, 17 December 2015
A hundred years since Einstein's Theory of Relativity, a new report from the Royal Society of New Zealand on 'National Taxonomic Collections of New Zealand', Riccarton Bush, and damselflies
Full episodeThursday, 10 December 2015
Lampreys, black mudfish and the Whangamarino wetland, 'Lichen Quartet' poem, and geology news from 2015 Geosciences Society of NZ conference
Full episodeThursday, 3 December 2015
New methods for detecting leafroll-3 virus infections in grape vines, the Status of the World's Soils report, and a mini NZ Ecological Society conference looking at long term declines in birds and moths, DNA evidence of kiore eating moa and the discovery of Asian as well as European house mice in New Zealand.
Full episodeThursday, 26 November 2015
Reducing nitrate leaching from dairy farms, young New Zealanders head to the Paris climate talks, tea-bag science, and light and life in Antarctica
Full episodeThursday, 19 November 2015
Sunshine and UV exposure, NIWA's electronic guide to coastal crabs, James Hector's scientific legacy, and The Fishes of New Zealand book from Te Papa Press
Full episodeThursday, 12 November 2015
2015 Prime Minister's Science Prize won by bone research team, PM's Emerging Scientist prize won by bird intelligence researcher, smart haptic glove, and testing strength of mussel shells
Full episodeThursday, 5 November 2015
Marine conservation pioneer Bill Ballantine dies, Raglan's Whaingaroa Harbour Care Group, WWF's conservation innovation awards, Journey through the Anthropocene with Gaia Vince, and Mars missions and scanning brains of Antarctic over-winterers
Full episodeThursday, 29 October 2015
Endangered Species Foundation, bending light to search for alien planets, effect of diet supplements on brain function and cognition, and fish houses: kokopu condos and tuna townhouses
Full episodeThursday, 22 October 2015
Wilding pines and fire hazard, printable and flexible solar cells, and investigating the diet of the kuri or Maori dog
Full episodeThursday, 15 October 2015
Kaika Energy's biodigestor, Cook Strait subtidal currents, ultrafast lasers and methanogenic microbes in species of ruminants around the world
Full episodeThursday, 8 October 2015
Science of water and stony soils, evaluating Marsden Fund success, disease screening kakariki on Tiritiri Matangi Island, Wellington joins 100 Resilient Cities, and age of resilience
Full episodeThursday, 1 October 2015
A pandemic flu scenario on Great Barrier Island, animal reintroductions, biodiversity offsetting, feasibility of a low sodium diet, and the Kermadec ocean sanctuary
Full episodeThursday, 24 September 2015
Earthworm translocations, evolution of enzymes, cleaning oiled wildlife using salt water, and the Wildbase wildlife hospital fixes a kiwi's broken beak
Full episodeThursday, 17 September 2015
Breeding better apples using GM, light and recovery from surgery, national bee survey, viruses in Argentine ants and melting of the east Antarctic ice sheet
Full episodeThursday, 10 September 2015
Foods and blood glucose, complex ecosystems, soil taxonomy and does your first language influence your trombone playing.
Full episodeThursday, 3 September 2015
Plant barbecue to test flammability of plants, underwater glider Manaia, seabirds and plastic pollution, Stewart Island shag extinction history, Albatross poem, sound sculpture, and the psychology of climate change denial
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