Science Alert

Friday th 27th of May 2011

‘Qigong’ helps cancer patients - 06:30

Don’t preach to the converted on carbon tax: it’s the money vote that matters - 06:30

Feasible fuel not from food - 06:30

Hybrid possums present hope - 06:30

Pleasure trumps HIV risks - 06:30

Wednesday th 25th of May 2011

Opinion: Monday’s medical myth: eating at night causes weight gain - 08:30

Quantum atom checks cells - 08:30

New parasites found in frogs - 08:30

Older drivers ‘over-confident’ - 08:30

Milky Way in mid-life crisis - 08:30

Busy roads: premature babies - 08:30

Tuesday th 24th of May 2011

Feature: The parental arms race - 08:30

Opinion: A licensing scheme to make smokers butt out for good - 08:30

Robots invent own language - 08:30

Otago researchers reveal PAX gene’s role in cancer - 02:00

Monday th 23rd of May 2011

Feature: Can keeping native mammals as pets help conserve wild populations? - 08:10

Heart drugs linked to infection - 08:10

Hip fracture rates declining - 08:10

Mushrooms beat tumour: study - 08:10

Sunday th 22nd of May 2011

Opinion: What’s really pushing up the price of power? - 08:30

Vitamin D speeds up recovery - 08:30

Thursday th 19th of May 2011

Feature: Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets melting faster than predicted - 08:30

Opinion: Brand Science is dead, and it’s time to break up the company - 08:30

Einstein’s ‘dark energy’ is real - 08:30

Robot help finds reefs - 08:30

How babies tell faces apart - 08:30

New vaccine protects horses - 08:30

Wednesday th 18th of May 2011

Worms beat stubborn snails - 08:30

New tests track flu treatments - 08:30

New fish species found - 08:30

Tomatoes good for the heart - 08:30

Bees 'read sky' to find home - 08:30

Opinion: Why bother with a carbon tax? - 08:30

Tuesday th 17th of May 2011

Oceans hint at extinction - 08:30

Depressed teens, risky drivers - 08:30

Opinion: Trust us, we’re climate scientists: the case for the IPCC - 08:30

Monday th 16th of May 2011

New biofuel from feedstock - 09:00

Chicken contamination falls - 08:00

Killing koi could be key to saving lakes - 08:00

Feature: National map of sea-floor biodiversity - 07:30

Sunday th 15th of May 2011

Skink City: Social lizards build real estate empires underground - 07:31

New tool to test stroke victims - 07:31

Desk job ups bowel cancer risk - 07:31

Feature: Global energy savings begin at home - 07:31

Wednesday th 11th of May 2011

Opinion: Managing our water demand in a fickle environment - 07:31

Feature: Understanding emotional responses to climate change - 07:31

Low vitamin D risks death - 07:31

Tuesday th 10th of May 2011

New hope for lung cancer - 08:30

Transforming carbon dioxide - 08:30

Plant 'smoke detector' gene - 08:00