Veronika Meduna

A team of Maori and Pacific marine scientists at Victoria University explore the impact of sediments on kaimoana Audio

An international science team has just returned from an expedition during which they crash-landed a metal frame festooned with the latest scientific gadgets to catch and film the deep-sea creatures of… Audio

University of Otago researchers decode the mitochondrial genome of the first people to arrive in New Zealand Audio

Spring to the Street is an annual event organised by the Greater Wellington Regional Council to encourage people to leave their car at home for three weeks and to use their commute to become more… Audio

A team at Victoria University finds that a few minutes of training each day can prevent the blues. Audio

New Zealand's proposal to place parts of the Ross Sea under protection has sparked a debate. Is this about conservation versus fishing, or with fishing? Audio

In her new book, 'Mad on Radium', science historian Rebecca Priestley charts New Zealand's unexpectedly rich history as a nuclear nation. Audio

Engineers and chemists at the University of Canterbury have teamed up to develop an ultra-fast test for drug resistance in flu. Audio

The year 1912 was arguably the most important in the history of Antarctic science. It is the year of Captain Scott's ill-fated journey to the South Pole, but there were five expeditions that year and… Audio

Poisonous front-fanged sea snakes have washed up, still alive, in Manukau Harbour a few times, but thankfully they landed straight in a preserving jar at the Auckland Museum. Brian Gill looks after… Audio

Nancy Bertler likes it cold. She spends her summers in Antarctica and her winters working in a laboratory at minus 20 degrees, surrounded by ice. As a glaciologist, Nancy's interested in the… Audio

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

Why is it that some volcanoes erupt in violent explosions and some in relatively gentle lava flows? At the University of Canterbury, volcanologists simulate volcanic eruption to figure out the answer.

The Transit of Venus in 1769 led to the discovery of New Zealand but every subsequent event has produced further inventions. Audio

A Christchurch father-and-son research team is developing an X-ray scanner that would make diagnosing medical conditions more accurate, faster and cheaper. University of Canterbury physicist Phil… Audio

Scientist, science journalist and co-producer of Radio New Zealand's Our Changing World, Veronika Meduna. Audio

They are known as the phantoms of the forest. Landcare Research biologists are keen to work out how stick insects managed to adapt to life in colder climates, and Veronika Meduna joins Alice Dennis… Audio