RNZ: This Way Up

Take one trishaw – a bit like a tricycle but with two wheels at the front – add two passengers and a volunteer driver, then get out in the fresh air for a pedal. That's the essence of Cycling Without Age.

Why the market for digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum is booming; the latest from LA gaming conference E3 2017; and Crash Override, the malware that can take down power grids.

Author and science journalist Michael Mosley turns his attention to our insides in the new book The Clever Guts Diet.

The Clever Guts Diet, the cryptocurrency boom, Cycling Without Age, and how Parkinson's invades your brain.

Researchers at MIT are trying to save on food transport costs by making meals that can transform from something that looks like a flat sheet of lasagne into macaroni just by adding water. Wen Wang is one of the team.

Science news – research suggests 34-week-old foetuses can see in the womb, plus the Zika virus could be used to treat brain cancer and measuring a white dwarf star with light.

The US Department of Defense is developing vanishing air vehicles that can make precise deliveries of critical supplies, then vaporise into thin air.

Miniaturist Mavis Cheyne uses her wood turning, pottery, joinery, embroidery and decorative skills to recreate all kinds of things in tiny scale and amazing detail. We visit her garage workshop to see how she does it.

David Owen explores the global business of sand in a rather worryingly titled New Yorker article 'The World is Running Out of Sand'.

A global sand shortage? Miniaturising the world, disposable drones, womb with a view: can foetuses see? And flatpack food: self-assembling pasta.

The crowdfunding website Kickstarter's become an important way for 'tabletop games' designers to connect with fans and raise the cash needed to produce their games.

Local game designer Shem Phillips has raised over $1 million to make board games via the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. His Viking-themed game 'Raiders of the North Sea' has just been nominated for an international games award.

The founder of Android launches a smartphone; Google releases its NZ accounts (spoiler alert: it's not paying much tax here), and China introduces new laws for foreign tech companies.

CRISPR Cas9 is a technique used to edit DNA that some say will change medicine, farming and genetic science forever. Biochemist Ian Hayden has been looking at where the technology is at and where it's heading.

Gene editing: how much hype? Google's tax bill & the Esssential phone, board game bonanza, and funding fun by fans.