Physics
Nights Science - Physics
Professor Shaun Hendy talks about New Zealand physicist John Ziman. Audio
Can't pop this: bubble scientist's passion for physics
Dr Helen Czerski talks to Kathryn Ryan about how looking closer at everyday objects opens the door to the fundamentals of physics. She is a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at… Audio
The Greatest Story Ever Told ...so far
Theoretical physicist, Lawrence Krauss on why we are all here, and how humanity has reached its current understanding of the universe. His latest book The Greatest Story Ever Told - so far, explores… Audio
Proof - the physics of creating a gas droplet
New Zealand physicists developed a theory about ultra cold gas 'droplets' that was proved in an experiment in Germany. Video, Audio
Proof - the physics of creating a gas droplet
New Zealand physicists developed a theory about ultra cold gas 'droplets' that was proved in an experiment in Germany.
Video, AudioA Time Traveller's Tale
String theory, multiverses, the big bang, and inflation theory can be mind-bending concepts to ponder. Dr Brian Greene loves to re-imagine the very structure of our universe, and find one simple… Audio
Nights' Science - Shaun Hendy
Trump and scientists - disappearing data from EPA and Whitehouse websites, scientists are getting organised to protest Trump with the #ScienceMarch. Audio
Quantum mechanics - do deep-sea bacteria do it?
Quantum mechanics describes how our universe behaves at an atomic level. It involves waves and particles, and deep-sea bacteria use it to harvest light very efficiently. Audio
Quantum mechanics - do deep-sea bacteria do it?
Quantum mechanics describes how our universe behaves at an atomic level. It involves waves and particles, and deep-sea bacteria use it to harvest light very efficiently.
AudioNights' Science - Physics
Prof. Shaun Hendy, director of Te Punaha Matatini at the University of Auckland, on this year's nobel prize winners and the transitional states of matter they've discovered - why do the same bunch of… Audio
Nights' Science - Physics
Prof. Shaun Hendy from the University of Auckland examines the life and work New Zealand astronomer and and cosmologist Beatrice Hill Tinsley. The Association of Scientists have just awarded the very… Audio
Nights' Science - Physics
Prof. Shaun Hendy, director of Te Punaha Matatini at the University of Auckland introduces the work of German physicist Emmy Noether who proved that whenever you have a continuous symmetry in physics… Audio
Nights' Science - Physics
What does gravity sound like? Prof. Shaun Hendy director of Te Punaha Matatini at the University of Auckland is explains the LIGO discovery. Audio
David Wiltshire: gravitational waves and black holes
Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Canterbury, discussing the announcement of the first direct detection of gravitational waves, and the New Zealand connection… Audio
Nights' Science - Physics
Prof. Shaun Hendy director of Te Punaha Matatini at the University of Auckland on the study of matter, energy, and the interactions between them... do black holes exist or not Audio
Bill Phillips: atoms, time, and light
Fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Distinguished Professor at University of Maryland, fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute, and joint winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for… Audio
Ultra-fast lasers
Ultra-fast lasers - or more properly ultra short-pulsed lasers - are very accurate, which makes them useful in industry and research Audio
Ultra-fast lasers
Ultra-fast lasers - or more properly ultra short-pulsed lasers - are very accurate, which makes them useful in industry and research
AudioThe Universe In Your Hand
In his latest book, 'The Universe in Your Hand' French Theoretical physicist Christophe Galfard takes you on a whistle-stop, wonder filled journey to the edge of the universe and back again. Using… Audio
Work on ghostly neutrinos earns Nobel prize
The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada, for discovering that neutrinos have mass.
