RNZ: Our Changing World

Twice a year, as part of MPI's border surveillance, NIWA checks New Zealand harbours for marine pests

Navigation for autonomous robots is a Catch 22. You need to know where you are to build a map, and you need a map to know where you are.

The fifteenth mystery sound from the Our Changing World opening theme

We join hundreds of Wellington commuters for the Spring to the Street challenge

Probing the genetic secrets of ryegrass and the beneficial fungi that live within it

Victoria University researchers are programming robots to intelligently navigate in unknown environments

Victoria University astronomer Melanie Johnston-Hollitt explores radio emissions from galaxy clusters

The fourteenth mystery sound from the Our Changing World opening theme

Humpback whales & bottlenose dolphins are common at Raoul Island but there is some doubt as to which populations they belong to

People experience jet lag after anaesthesia, and work with honeybees is showing what is happening to their body clocks

Allan Hardacre and his students have created a protein-rich meat analogue for the elderly, which is soft and easy to chew

A Victoria University team is exploring asymmetries in brain function to predict vulnerability to depression

The thirteenth mystery sound from the Our Changing World opening theme

A discussion of New Zealand's proposal to establish a marine protected area in the Ross Sea region

Magic-angle spinning NMR allows chemists to study the nucleus within atoms of novel ceramics and geopolymers