NASA's new head scientist, Dr Nicola Fox, is on a mission to uncover the mysteries of the Universe and has an over eight billion dollar budget to do it.

The average New Zealand rubbish bin is half-full of food scraps. Although we hear a bit about megatonnes of food waste rotting in landfills being a massive problem, it is also a missed opportunity, says zero-waste advocate Liam Prince. "We're wasting a really valuable resource that could be going into restoring our soils, increasing our food security and food resilience," he tells Kim Hill.

As the final series of HBO's hit drama Succession goes to air, the Murdoch media empire that inspired the show is dealing with its own dramas.

Fighting between Sudan's military and the Rapid Support Forces continued Friday, hours into a second 72 hour ceasefire say eyewitnesses. The situation across Sudan has deteriorated, with shortages of water and food supplies, and reports of violence and widespread looting.

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Nomad gardener and The Edible Backyard author Kath Irvine is reporting in from a campground in Otepoti where she's been attending the Wild Dunedin New Zealand Festival of Nature.

Alzheimer's disease is a devastating degenerative disorder that slowly destroys memory and eventually the ability to carry out the most basic tasks.

Jason Te Mete (Ngati Ranginui, Ngai Te Rangi) has been recovering from necrotising fasciitis, a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection that left him doubtful he could ever return to the stage. .

Rebecca Struthers was just 17 when she set out on her path to become one of Britain's leading watchmakers. An active campaigner in the preservation of endangered heritage skills, Struthers family-run workshop combines 30 years of experience in watch restoration, watchmaking, goldsmithing, silversmithing, fine art and gemmology.

When an autistic and a non-autistic person have a social interaction, there's an assumption that if non-autistic people are doing it "right" autistic people must be doing it "wrong," says research psychologist and autism activist Dr Jac den Houting (they/them). It's too easily forgotten that autistic people work just as hard to understand non-autistic people and when there's miscommunication both sides are contributing to it, Dr Houting tells Kim Hill.