The universe is lumpier than first thought! New findings from a team of New Zealand scientists shows that the universe does not expand at a constant, flat rate, but in a fluctuating or lumpy way.

Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Maggie Tweedie to review Mufasa: The Lion King (2024), documentary Sugarcane (2024), and a selection of free-streaming family movies on ThreeNow: The NeverEnding Story (1984), The Princess Bride (1987), and La La Land (2016).

Every Friday, we bring you some of the most interesting events and happenings coming up in Aotearoa this weekend.

Maggie Tweedie speaks to Shannon Thompson from Red Frogs who has some tips for what to talk about with teenagers before they head off for summer.

Levi Patel made a video about his visit to a small Chinese city, set to his new single 'Gravity'. The next day, he awoke to his notifications blowing up.

The search for people trapped in rubble and landslides is continuing today as the New Zealand Defence Force arrives in Port Vila.

Since March this year, Jonny Beardmore has been travelling the globe to hand-deliver 50 letters to strangers around the world collected from an ancient postbox on Isla Floreana in the Galapagos Islands.

Maggie Tweedie speaks to Mark Broatch, books editor at the NZ Listener, about some of the best books published this year.

To guide us through Jason Attewell the general manager of economic and environmental insights at Stats NZ speaks to Maggie Tweedie.

The story, which has no dialogue, follows a cat who, after a violent flood, teams up with an unlikely group of animals, a bird, a dog, a lemur, and a capybara to pilot a boat in search of survival and dry land.