Balleny Islands Marine Biodiversity Study: A unique expedition to the remote Balleny Islands... more

Nitrate Busters: Researchers at Lincoln University in Canterbury are trying to reduce the... more

Crystal Gazing: Otago University Professor Sally Brooker's school encounter with the wild... more

Nanoclusters: Simon Brown of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and... more

Ocean Survey 20/20: New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone covers about 4 million square... more

The DNA Dealer: Researchers at Lincoln University in Canterbury are looking into sheep... more

Spin Doctor: Ben Ruck from the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology... more

Professor Paul Callaghan visits Richard Taylor who leads Weta Workshop, a five time Academy... more

David Skilling is the founding Chief Executive of the New Zealand Institute, a think-tank... more

Bill Denny is a Professor in the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre. His biotechnology... more

Beyond the Farm and Theme Park: A documentary in which Professor Paul Callaghan puts forward... more

Craig Rofe is the first Maori PhD in physics in New Zealand and is a physics teacher at Onslow... more

Dr Ocean Mercier talks to Professor Paul Callaghan about her background in physics and her... more

Professor Paul Callaghan outlines his vision for New Zealand's future prosperity in this... more

The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology is New Zealand's premier... more

"SuperPlasticsMan" celebrates the life and work of Professor Alan MacDiarmid, the... more

Stephen Tindall founded The Warehouse in 1982. In 1995 he and his wife set up the Tindall... more

Michael Chick is CEO of Tait Electronics, the Chistchurch-based manufacturer and exporter of... more

Andrew Wilson is a physicist at Otago University, an expert in lasers and optics and their... more

Di McCarthy is the CEO of The Royal Society of New Zealand, an independent, statutory body... more

Neville Jordan heads Endeavour Capital, a venture capital business that invests in the high... more

Ring Laser of the Lost Cave: The contents of Cracroft Cavern in Christchurch was once one of... more

Einstein and White Dwarves: Dr Denis Sullivan from Victoria University explains what they are... more

Radiometric Dating: The geological timescale is how we date, correlate and classify rock... more

The Planet Hunters of MOA are looking for planets outside our solar system. The Mt John... more

Sea ice is the complicated material that forms when the oceans close to the North and South... more

As Cold As It Gets: At temperatures less than one millionth of a degree above absolute zero,... more

Chasing Currents: The movement of waters around NZ is significant, with huge ocean currents... more

Advanced MRI: While the structural anatomy of the brain has been reasonably well understood... more

Looking into the Cold Virus Molecule: The video looks at the use of Nuclear Magnetic... more

Computer Modeling Tiny Things: At IRL, our research group uses mathematical modelling and... more

Counting Fish with Sound: NIWA surveys fish so that fisheries managers can set sustainable... more

Autonomous Deep Ocean Glider: This video offers a look at an ingenious tool for exploring the... more

Diamond Detectors for CERN The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the Centre and Particle and... more

Drying Wood More Effectively: All processes taking place on earth use energy. Most of our... more

Fluorescing Bacteria: The anthrax attacks in the United States in late 2001, the threats in... more

Optics and Communications Pt 2: The huge research effort worldwide on the construction of... more

Stirring Fluids: The aging and rejuvenation of soft, glassy complex fluids is like a lot of... more

How Good is that Wood? Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS) uses radiation to make... more

Radiocarbon Dating: The Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory has a long history in radiocarbon... more

Investigating Quarks: The Standard Model of particle physics says that the protons and... more

Keeping New Zealand on Time: Time has redefined our world and how we interact on a day-to-day... more

Looking at Lightning and Storms from Space: The processes which influence the Earth's... more

Maori Stars: In bygone days, tohunga Maori (Maori wise men and women) spent much time studying... more

Quantum Optics Simulations: Since the first half of the twentieth century, quantum mechanics... more

Phoenix Observatory: The goals of the The Phoenix Astronomical Society are to make astronomy... more

Picturing the Bottom of the Sea: Q: How do you take pictures of the seafloor when it's covered... more

Why We Are All Big Softies: Many biomaterials are "soft" and "gloopy" owing to the properties... more

Stonehenge Aotearoa Astronomy Centre is a full-scale working adaptation of Stonehenge. It is... more

High Temp Superconductors, Pt 1: HTS stands for high temperature superconductors which start... more

Optics and Communications Pt 1: Many of the applications of lasers depend upon their... more

Taking NMR to the Sample: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is one of the more recent sensing... more

White Earth Melting: Film Maker Jinty MacTavish with assistance from Otago Girls High School... more

Polluted Piako: An award-winning short film produced by students of Ngatea School in the... more

The Burning Question: A team from Timaru Boys High School won the 2009 Big Science Adventures... more

To Live! Beginning with the search for life elsewhere in our universe, this film from St... more

Copernicus: This short film, from Nelson College for Girls, uses Lego sets to illustrate the... more

Pacific Star Navigation: This short film explains how and why the Pacific people where able to... more

Finding Time: This short film produced by a team from Nelson College demonstrates and explains... more

The Evolution of New Zealand's Biodiversity: Beginning with scenes of native birds, this film... more

The Evolved Story of Evolution: This film discusses natural selection and the evidence that... more

Only the Strong: Presented as the movie preview of a hypothetical soon-to-be-released feature... more

War On Error: A film about the work of two modern-day New Zealand scientists carrying on from... more

Hanging on in Antarctica: The grand prize for the 2006 Big Science Adventures winning team was... more

Spottie: The Difference. This quirky and creative film won the Otago Girls High School team... more

Mt John Observatory: On a crystal clear night you can see forever, and might just discover a... more

Professor Robert Kirshner is one of the most prolific astronomers of our time. He has written... more

Professor Paul Callaghan outlines his vision for New Zealand's future prosperity in this... more

Dr. Anne Young is a world-renowned expert in Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases. She and... more

British botanist and environmental campaigner Professor David Bellamy gives a public talk at... more

Gerontology is the scientific study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of... more

New Zealand Freemasons show their commitment to the health and care of our most vulnerable... more

Rocket science, greenhouse gases and concrete experiments all feature in this video on the... more

Professor Richard Faull is a world leader on research into the human brain and neurological... more