Nights

Consumer NZ has revealed the expected lifespan of some household appliances. Over 15,000 people have signed Consumer's petition calling for mandatory repairability labelling, which would tell you how easy it is to repair a product before you buy it. Andrew Wadsworth runs Wellington Appliance Servicing in the Hutt Valley.

It's that time of the week where we check in with our resident film and TV expert Dan Slevin. Tonight, he's got his eye on My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 and season one of crime thriller Dark Winds.

It’s rare for a long-haul flight to feel like a relaxing journey, but it’s even worse if you can’t get any sleep. The trick, says sleep expert Leigh Signal, is to adopt a realistic approach and maximise the sleep you do get. Here's how get your best sleep in the air.

Every year, millions of tonnes of electronic waste including old laptops, mobile phones and televisions are thrown away and end up in landfill. Britain's Royal Mint - whose job it is to make coins for the UK - has found a new way to extract the precious metals from e-waste, into something valuable. It's a pioneering and state-of-the-art technology. Mark Loveridge, commercial director at the UK Royal Mint. joins Nights to talk about the innovation.

A wooden door in an 11th-century English cathedral is thought to feature the world's oldest documented cat flap.The feline-sized portal was crafted more than 400 years ago so that a resident cat could police rodents, says Exeter Cathedral historian Diane Walker.

When you think of kumara, you don't really think of gelato. But one patisserie engineer has developed a frozen dessert with toka toka, gold kumara, and is using kilos of produce that could otherwise be chucked out. Island Gelato Company's patisserie engineer Hannah Clarke.

The inaugural National Sheep and Beef Cattle Veterinarian of the Year award was recently given to a Hawke's Bay vet following her work during cyclone recovery. Anyika Scotland is a Production Animal Vet at Hawke's Bay Vet Services. She's been in the sheep and beef industry her whole life, and is encouraging farmers to "go off farm" for a break from the slog.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a giant 'bubble' of galaxies in the nearby universe. They hope the discovery can fill in some blanks about our understanding of the universe. Team member Dr Cullan Howlett from The University of Queensland's School of Mathematics and Physics talks to Mark Leishman.

An undercover UK police officer used his fake identity to deceive a woman into a 19-year relationship in which they became partners and had a child together, according to British media. Mark van Leewarden is a former undercover cop in New Zealand, and was a member of Auckland's criminal underbelly for a year, gathering intelligence and trying not to get found out. Mark joins Nights to talk about the UK case, his former life as an undercover cop, and how he became New Zealand's most successful international fraud investigator.

We use our voices to communicate with every single day. But little do we realise that there's another part of our anatomy that have a lot to say about ourselves and our bodies - our hands. Adam Taylor is Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre at Lancaster University in the UK.