Former basketball player and chef Jenny Nguyen became increasingly frustrated by the lack of women's sports playing at the bars she hung out in. So, in 2022 she used her life savings to open the Sports Bra, an inclusive bar and restaurant in Portland, Oregon, that plays only women's sports on its TV screens. It's been a raging success, bringing in one million dollars in revenue in its first eight months.

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Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news. This week: why a single shot of gene therapy may replace surgical sterilisation for cats.

Mental illness may seem an unlikely subject for a musical, but in the US Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal has won not only Tony Awards but a Pulitzer Prize. Director of its Christchurch production Hayden Tee (Ngati Kahungunu, Takatapui) considers it one of the great musicals.

This month Kiwa Hammond has been part of an Aotearoa contingent in Germany to retrieve skeletal remains of karapuna, Ta Imi Moriori ancestors of Rekohu (the Chatham Islands) and Maori tipuna from various institutions and museums.

It's generally true that the ability to get good sleep declines as we get older, says world-leading chronobiologist Philippa Gander. One of the best-known ways to increase the amount of slow-wave sleep we need for essential "brain cleansing" is regular physical exercise, she tells Kim Hill.

When UK based New Zealand writer Margaret Meyer visited a local museum in the town of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, it sent her on a mission to uncover the story of a group of women accused of being witches, and the men who hunted them.

Would you like to be paid a basic income, no matter what? In the UK, a proposed trial would see 30 people paid an unconditional sum of about NZ$3295 a month for two years to see what effect it has on their mental and physical health.

New treatments for pancreatic cancer are urgently needed. Yet, results from a small study published recently suggest that bespoke messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines that prime a patient's immune system to fight their cancer might be an effective future option.

Nomad gardener and The Edible Backyard author Kath Irvine has parked up the house truck and settled down for winter in Golden Bay.