RNZ: This Way Up

Dr Chris Smith beams in with the latest sciencey stuff; this week, using snake venom to relieve pain and making healthy eggs out of stem cells.

Till Roenneberg's a German sleep scientist who reckons blackout curtains, computer screens, and artificial lighting are all shifting us away from the natural lighting cycle of sunrise and sunset.

Anu Anand reports from India, where foreign supermarkets Walmart and Tesco get the all clear to open for business. Plus people cash in bangles, rings and necklaces from India's huge gold reserves.

Charles Arthur beams in with the latest tech news. This week, Apple's decision to ditch Google Maps on the new iPhone 5, and the irresistible rise of the solid state drive.

Anna-Louise Taylor on English plans to hunt down and kill thousands of badgers, and an ambitious internet-based plan to save threatened high street shops.

Cars that fold up when you park them are being touted as a solution to many urban transport woes. Steve Ashley's been looking at folding cars for the BBC and the New York Times.

The latest science news with Dr Chris Smith. This week, the scientific basis for all those glass half full people who look on the bright side of life. Also why do eunuchs live longer?

How do you measure how your Kiwisaver fund is doing? And what can you do if you're not happy with your rate of return? With Chris Douglas of Morningstar Australasia and Amanda Morrall of interest.co.nz

Minecraft's the computer game where you mine for stuff and then make things out of virtual blocks. With Minecraft devotees Stella and Lukas and Gus Mastrapa of Wired.

Large-scale cross-border cheese smuggling in Canada! Dave Seglins is a reporter and host at CBC Radio News.

Genevieve Bell is an Australian cultural anthropologist who works at Intel. She looks at how different genders and cultures use technology.

David Kushner's just written 'Jacked: the unauthorised behind-the-scenes story of Grand Theft Auto'.

David Smith of the Guardian reports on Angola, the African country where 120,000 Portuguese people have migrated as their economy melts down.

Tarakihi, the grey fish that's lovely baked whole. We speak to Rachel Taulelei from Yellow Brick Road.

A recent paper published in the British Medical Journal says evidence is mounting that medicine is harming healthy people through ever earlier detection and wider definitions of disease. We speak to one of the authors, Ray Moynihan.