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The Otago Tramping and Mountaineering Club (OTMC) is turning 100 in October and members are celebrating for 12 months by going on 100 trips.

Researchers in New Zealand, the US and South America have been working together for the better part of a decade on a transportable MRI scanner in the hopes of making it more accessible and comfortable.

Concrete production reportedly makes up eight per cent of our global carbon emissions worldwide. In 2020 we used 14 billion cubic metres of concrete according the Global Cement and Concrete Association.

To tell us all about it is Neocrete's co-founder Matt Kennedy-Good. Hello there Matt!

The BBC's Jonathan Frewin joins Nights with the latest news from around the world.

Mark Dorrell is the musical director of 'A Night of Sondheim', an upcoming show at Auckland's Civic Theatre celebrating the life and work of musical lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim.

Tea-duelling, teapot racing and suitcase decorating - it was all happening in Oamaru, the steampunk capital of New Zealand over the weekend. Event organiser Lea Campbell.

Major changes are being proposed to the system of donations to political parties and candidates by The Independent Electoral Review. Max Rashbrooke is a senior associate of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.

Insects are becoming extinct faster than mammals, birds and reptiles. Rob Cruickshank is an entomologist and lecturer at the University of Canterbury. He has some tips about how to support bug biodiversity in your neighbourhood.

What do Artificial Intelligence and geography have in common? Nights regular Louise Richards, Vice President of the New Zealand Geographical Society, and Angus Dowell, PhD Candidate from the University of Auckland's School of Environment.

Sports commentator Bryan Waddle joins Nights for a wrap of the latest sport news.