RNZ: Our Changing World

Natalie Plank is creating electronic biosensors out of nanomaterials, with the aim of making them both very sensitive and cheap

Public health champion Philippa Howden-Chapman discusses the health benefits of home insulation and different heating options

First mystery sound from the Our Changing World opening theme

The OPUS Central Laboratory wind tunnel is the longest in the Southern Hemisphere, and can blow up to 120 km/hour

IRL scientists are working with nanopore technology and developing extremely water repellent surfaces

Scientists are looking for resistance genes so kiwifruit plants can withstand the Psa bacterium's effector genes

Four secondary school and eight undergraduate students compete for the inaugural young science orators award.

The perforated electric flow through water filter can do much more than treat bore water contaminated with iron

Leap seconds were created in 1972 and are added at irregular intervals to the atomic time scale

Plant and Food Research is developing a range of assays to test how kiwifruit seedlings respond to Psa

Ice cores collected from Roosevelt Island hold secrets to how ice sheets could melt in a warming world

Plant and Food Research scientists are hoping to breed kiwifruit cultivars that show resistance to the pathogen Psa

Pathologist Christopher Pease explains what he looks for when he checks cells to determine if a patient has cancer

At Victoria University, cancer researchers are engineering microbes to produce prodrugs that could help kill cancer cells

After nearly half a century, the hunt for the Higgs Boson may be over as CERN announces new particle