Our Changing World for Thursday 12 October 2017

9:08 PM.The 2017 Rutherford Prize has been awarded to Victoria University of Wellington geologist Colin Wilson for his work on supervolcanoes such as Taupo. Read more Audio

9:07 PM.An $8-million research programme to better understand the Taupo supervolcano and prepare the community for an eruption has just begun. Read more Audio

9:06 PM.The 2017 MacDiarmid Medal has been awarded to chemist Peter Tyler, for his work designing and creating new drugs to treat diseases such as cancer. Read more Audio