Nights

Kate Curtis is a PhD student at Lincoln University and native jumping spiders are her passion.

The winner of the Prime Minister's Macdiarmid Science Prize, Dr Olivia Harrison, leads a lab combining neuroscience with fields like physiology and computational modelling to learn more about what is going on in our bodies when we are anxious.

Cheating is as old as time, but with the advent of generative AI to answer questions, are degrees worth as much as they used to be? Mike Grimshaw from the University of Canterbury weighs in.

Playwright and producer Victor Rodger has reread Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty ahead of interviewing Alan at the Auckland Writer's Festival.

Dan Weijers, senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Waikato, delves into why we make bucket lists, what they say about us, and whether ticking things off really gives life meaning.

New Zealand Marist priest Father Ben D’Souza, who is currently studying in Rome, was in St Peter’s Square last night when black smoke rising from the chimney signaled that the first vote had not produced a new pope.

Music curator at the Alexander Turnbull Library Michael Brown undertakes a thorough study in his new book Eyeliner's Buy Now.

Dr Chris Ogden, director of Global Studies at the University of Auckland, joins Emile Donovan to explain the ratcheting tensions between India and Pakistan.

We welcome back a friend of Nights, Professor Bryan Fry, aka Venom Doc because of his passion for studying venomous creatures.

Dr Liz Allen is a demographer from Australian National University in Canberra and she speaks to Emile Donovan.