A report from the 49th The Australian & New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) Congress. Speakers are 1. Dr. John Maunder, climate scientist -- 2 Professor Derek Bryce-Smith, University of Reading. -- 3 Dr Michael Hills, University of Waikato -- 4 Professor Theo Roy, University of Waikato -- 5 Dr Don McAlpine, Massey University -- 6 Dr Keith Sutherland Presidential Address

The whareuku, or earth house, is a research project overseen by Dr Kepa Morgan that looks to develop low-cost rammed earth housing.

Toxicity caused by forestry in Whakatane has had an enormous impact on the environment. Matauranga Maori, western science and numerous agencies joinforces to address the affected Kopeopeo Canal.

Te Rarawa and Auckland Museum are discovering how cutting-edge 3D imaging technology, can see taonga returned to the iwi while allowing the museum to exhibit a three dimensional replica.

The okahu Bay Restoration Project, run by Ngati Whatua ki orakei utilises matauranga Maori and science to help establish the toxicity of the bay and to enable the iwi to find restoration solutions.

Using their intimate knowledge of the Urewera forests, Tuhoe are working with scientists to re-establish populations of Rimu trees devastated by milling.

Science and Maori knowledge combine in Maraeroa C Incorporations Ginseng growing trial.

Freshwater scientists are utilising Maori knowledge to assess population abundance and structure of koura in lakes. We look at traditional Te Arawa methods for harvesting lake koura.

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a variety of cosmic topics and collide pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Weekly topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life, the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment. Tyson is an astrophysicist with a gifted ability to connect with everyone, inspiring us all to to "keep looking up."

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a variety of cosmic topics and collide pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Weekly topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life, the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment. Tyson is an astrophysicist with a gifted ability to connect with everyone, inspiring us all to to "keep looking up."

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a variety of cosmic topics and collide pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Weekly topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life, the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment. Tyson is an astrophysicist with a gifted ability to connect with everyone, inspiring us all to to "keep looking up."

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a variety of cosmic topics and collide pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Weekly topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life, the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment. Tyson is an astrophysicist with a gifted ability to connect with everyone, inspiring us all to to "keep looking up."

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a variety of cosmic topics and collide pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Weekly topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life, the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment. Tyson is an astrophysicist with a gifted ability to connect with everyone, inspiring us all to to "keep looking up."

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a variety of cosmic topics and collide pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Weekly topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life, the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment. Tyson is an astrophysicist with a gifted ability to connect with everyone, inspiring us all to to "keep looking up."

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a variety of cosmic topics and collide pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Weekly topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life, the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment. Tyson is an astrophysicist with a gifted ability to connect with everyone, inspiring us all to to "keep looking up."

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a variety of cosmic topics and collide pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Weekly topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life, the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment. Tyson is an astrophysicist with a gifted ability to connect with everyone, inspiring us all to to "keep looking up."

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a variety of cosmic topics and collide pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Weekly topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life, the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment. Tyson is an astrophysicist with a gifted ability to connect with everyone, inspiring us all to to "keep looking up."

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a variety of cosmic topics and collide pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Weekly topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life, the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment. Tyson is an astrophysicist with a gifted ability to connect with everyone, inspiring us all to to "keep looking up."

In this first episode, Morris takes us through a world-wide tour of cultural body language differences, emphasizing the well known awkward situations they can produce for those unaware of such differences. More importantly, however, Morris digs deeper and finds that beyond the superficial differences there are biological similarities that turn out to be virtually universal, a product of our evolutionary history, so much so that we share many of them with our closest cousins: chimpanzees.

Extracts from episodes of BBC One/Animal Planet series Talking With Animals. Charlotte Uhlenbroek shows us the impressive communication abilities of both prairie dogs and dolphins.

Extracts from the With and Without Words episode of The Human Language Series. Examines the role of gesture and facial expression in communication. Associated Creators: Equinox Films

The Naked Bum. The biology, mechanics, aesthetics and health of the human backside.

Prof. Susan Greenfield (Univ. of Oxford) discusses what it is that makes humans different from the rest of the animal world. She focuses on the human ability to work towards long-term goals and observes the results of damage to the frontal lobe of the brain, which seems to be the location of this skill. But planning is not a uniquely human skill - chimpanzees in a study by the University of Georgia demonstrated that they too can do this. Humans, however, have developed language which accounts for the rapid development of our culture; but some scientists argue that chimps, too, are capable of acquiring language. There seems to be a missing link between chimpanzees and humans, indicated by the post-Neanderthal appearance of new kinds of tools indicating a development from modular mental ability to lateral thinking. Among those taking part in the programme are Dr. Adrian Owen (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) and Prof. Michael Gazzaniga (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire U.S).

Nga pakipumeka hitori tuturu o te ao. A te po nei: Kirihou Parekareka: He tirohanga hohonu ki te hua o nga rauemi waihanga, e tareka ai e nga manene i roto i nga reanga mahi rereke, te tirotiro i nga rohe whakatakoto, hou. Originally produced by Natural History New Zealand.

In Raglan, waste water disposal at the Kokiri Centre is vital issue for Tainui-a-whiro. Using western science and matauranga theyve developed an eco-friendly system.

Professor Michael Walker harnesses both western science and matauranga Maori in his thinking and may just have made a breakthrough that provides answers to the bird and fish migratory puzzle.

We all like to think we are in control of our lives - of what we feel and what we think. But scientists are now discovering this is often simply an illusion. Surprising experiments are revealing that what you think you do and what you actually do can be very different. Your unconscious mind is often calling the shots, influencing the decisions you make, from what you eat to who you fall in love with. If you think you are really in control of your life, you may have to think again.

At Te Urewera National Park, huge efforts are being made to protect kiwi. The Lake Waikaremoana Hapū Restoration Trust has been reviving the kiwi population there and methods are being adopted around country.

Village members of Whakarewarewa Geothermal Field have teamed up with GNS Science to introduce measures to limit access to the geothermal field, in an attempt to preserve the precious resource for future generations.

Toheroa, a shellfish, was a staple of our diets and one of our first exports. However, overharvesting saw a total ban put in place. We look at the effort to rejuvenate the Toheroa population.

The sea cucumber has never been a part of our diet, but in China it’s considered a delicacy. We investigate Whakatōhea scientist Kimberley Maxwell’s attempt to cultivate these unusual sea creatures for the export market.

The psyllid pest costs our commercial potato industry millions in lost export earnings. The Taewa Resistance Research Project hopes to find resistance to the psyllid pest, which is costing the commercial potato industry millions in lost export earnings.

Pre-European Māori incorporated a vast amount of astronomical knowledge into their lives, but much has been lost. The Society of Maori Astronomy Research and Traditions is inspiring the next generation to look to the stars.

In 1991 a new species of marine sponge was collected that contained a previously unknown chemical with potent biological properties.

The iconic Kauri is under threat from Kauri Dieback, a disease that could decimate the iconic forests of the north and push this giant of the ngahere to the brink of extinction.

Estuaries integrate and accumulate the effects of activities on the land. Nga Waihotanga Iho, the estuarine monitoring toolkit for iwi, has been developed to empower tangata whenua with tools to...

The changes in the brain during the growth and development of a baby into an adult are explored. Susan Greenfield looks at how little of the fine structure of our brains is predetermined at birth, how the connections between nerves are constantly changing in response to what we encounter in the outside world. She explains her view that learning, memory and even the process of becoming a unique individual, should all be seen as a restless brain adapting minute by minute to the environment it encounters. Life is about how the world leaves its mark on us.

Professor Brian Cox is going in search of the best of British science. Introducing his science heroes, Brian visits the places where they made their discoveries, recreating their experiments and examining their legacy to their scientific descendants.

Professor Brian Cox is going in search of the best of British science. Introducing his science heroes, Brian visits the places where they made their discoveries, recreating their experiments and examining their legacy to their scientific descendants.

In this episode, Michael demonstrates how our society is built on our search to find the answer to what makes up everything in the material world. This is a story that moves from the secret labs of the alchemists and their search for gold to the creation of the world's first synthetic dye - mauve - and onto the invention of the transistor. This quest may seem abstract and highly theoretical. Yet it has delivered the greatest impact on humanity. By trying to answer this question, scientists have created theories from elements to atoms, and the strange concepts of quantum physics that underpin our modern, technological world. Presented by Michael Mosley ; series producer, Aidan Laverty ; Consultants, Prof Pietro Corsi, Dr Jim Endersby, Dr Patricia Fara.

We are the most power-hungry generation that has ever lived. This film tells the story of how that power has been harnessed - from wind, steam and from inside the atom. In the early years the drive for new sources of power was led by practical men who wanted to make money. Their inventions and ideas created fortunes and changed the course of history, but it took centuries for science to catch up, to explain what power is, rather than simply what it does. This search revealed fundamental laws of nature which apply across the universe, including the most famous equation in all of science, e=mc2. Presented by Michael Mosley ; series producer, Aidan Laverty ; Consultants, Prof Pietro Corsi, Dr Jim Endersby, Dr Patricia Fara.

Michael begins with the story of one of the great upheavals in human history - how we came to understand that our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos, but just one of billions of bodies in a vast and expanding universe. He reveals the critical role of medieval astrologers in changing our view of the heavens, and the surprising connections to the upheavals of the Renaissance, the growth of coffee shops and Californian oil and railway barons. Michael shows how important the practical skills of craftsmen have been to this story and finds out how Galileo made his telescope to peer at the heavens and by doing so helped change our view of the universe forever. Presented by Michael Mosley ; series producer, Aidan Laverty ; Consultants, Prof Pietro Corsi, Dr Jim Endersby, Dr Patricia Fara.

The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the most complex organism known - the human body. It begins with attempts to save the lives of gladiators in Ancient Rome, unfolds with the macabre work and near-perfect drawings of Leonardo in the Renaissance, through the idea of the 'life force' of electricity, to the microscopic world of the cell. It reveals how a moral crisis unleashed by work on the nuclear bomb helped trigger a great breakthrough in biology - understanding the structure and workings of DNA. Presented by Michael Mosley ; series producer, Aidan Laverty ; Consultants, Prof Pietro Corsi, Dr Jim Endersby, Dr Patricia Fara.

The question of our human origins is one of the most controversial science has wrestled with. This is the story of how scientists came to explain the beauty and diversity of life on earth, and reveal how its evolution is connected to the long and violent history of our planet. Featuring ocean adventurers, eccentric French aristocrats, mountain climbers, a secret Victorian publisher with 12 fingers, a ridiculed German meteorologist, and only a brief hint of Charles Darwin. Presented by Michael Mosley ; series producer, Aidan Laverty ; Consultants, Prof Pietro Corsi, Dr Jim Endersby, Dr Patricia Fara.

We now know that the brain - the organ that more than any other makes us human - is one of the wonders of the universe, and yet until the 17th century it was barely studied. The twin sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are. Now these sciences are coming together and in the process have revealed some surprising and uncomfortable truths about what really shapes our thoughts, feelings and desires. And the search to understand how our brains work has also revealed that we are all - whether we realise it or not - carrying out science from the moment we are born. Presented by Michael Mosley.

Rebekah Fuller has spent years researching matauranga Maori. Today shes using this knowledge and Western science to develop new ways to protect kumara from fungal infections. (FINAL)

Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.

Traditional harvesting of the kuia bird ended in the 1960s due to a decline in numbers. Ngati Awa hope to re-establish this customary practice by employing sustainable scientific methods.

Te Ropu Taiao o Utakura utilise science and Maori knowledge to restore, protect and enhance the freshwater environment and fisheries of the Utakura river.