Lily Clague, a Masters student in chemistry at Otago, talks about how some of the carbon predicted to exist in space is missing, and how her research tries to understand where might be hiding, and how you could come up with experiments to try to find it.

Host Dave McMorran talks about the perhaps unfamiliar chemical element Antimony, what its used for and how, for a time, it was mined in New Zealand.

Sam McIntyre, a Masters student in the Chemistry Department at Otago University, talks about her research into how simple molecules made up of nitrogen and oxygen might be made in space and how ice might help this process.

Host Dave McMorran talks about the work of the German chemist Heinrich Wieland, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1927 for his work understanding the chemical makeup and properties of the molecules in bile.

Shruthi Sateesh, a PhD student in Neuroscience at Otago University, talks about her research on how memories are formed in the brain, and how this process can go wrong in diseases like Alzheimers.

Sam Purdie, a Masters student in Zoology at Otago University, talks about his studies on a new species of gecko in New Zealand’s South Island.

Daniela De Angeli Dutra, a PhD student in Zoology at Otago University, talks about her studies into the extent to which the migration patterns in South American birds facilitates the spread of malaria.

Stephanie Brown, a PhD student in paediatric medicine, talks about her research into how a dietary approach can help with treating children with Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome.

Matt Robb, a PhD student in Chemistry at Otago University, talks about his work in making molecules that can exist in two forms and how being able to switch between these forms might make the molecules useful was components for nanoscale computers.

Host Dave McMorran talks about the chemistry and the people involved in trying to bring acetylene lighting to New Zealand in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.