RNZ: This Way Up

The latest science news from around the planet with Dr Chris Smith.

The past, the present, and the future of the map with Simon Garfield, author of 'On The Map'.

Peter Griffin on the debate over who should control the internet, and new research on the take up of ultra-fast broadband. Plus bad news for the crowd-funding website, Kickstarter; it could be liable for products launched via its site.

Sam Muirhead is trying to live for a year only using open source products. His latest challenge has been to find an open source mobile phone.

Professor Helen Leach has been studying hundreds of jam, pickle and chutney recipes in old magazines and cookbooks to uncover this country's hidden history of fruit and veg preservation.

Lynette Townsend and Anita Hogan of Te Papa are trying to track down the families of over 100 soldiers who fought in the First World War. All they have to work with are some old glass negatives found in an attic cupboard!

A team of scientists at Oxford University has discovered exactly how long it takes fat to gets from our food onto our waists. We speak to Professor Fredrik Karpe.

Coughing, yawning and sneezing are just some of the curious behaviours documented by the American scientist Robert Provine.

If you're self-employed, is KiwiSaver worth joining? Plus kids and KiwiSaver; how can you get it working for all your family? With Chris Douglas, the co-head of Fund Research at Morningstar Australasia, and Amanda Morrall of interest.co.nz.

Tom Vanderbilt of Slate.com's been looking at the history of the shipping pallet, an object as important as the shipping container in keeping goods moving smoothly around the globe.

For the past 30-odd years, registered nurse Alison Neill has been running Moreh House in Fairlie in Canterbury. It's a rest home with a difference.

Fran Ashcroft explains the crucial role that electricity plays in the human body. So how do we generate power from within?

Hugh Robertson is one of the authors of The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand.

Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy is training illiterate African grandmothers to be solar engineers at his Barefoot College in India.

Erika Janik's written a global history of the apple. Also, Professor Julian Heyes of Massey University on New Zealand's hottest apple varieties, and how they get protected from counterfeiters.