5 Oct 2022

Nobel Prize for Physics, trees + warming, mystery extinct fish

From Nine To Noon, 11:45 am on 5 October 2022

Science correspondent Allan Blackman joins Kathryn to look at the newly-announced winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics, new research which suggests planting trees in dry areas can actually help increase atmospheric warming and DNA has helped crack a century-old mystery about New Zealand's only extinct freshwater fish.

Allan Blackman is a Professor of Chemistry, School of Science, Auckland University of Technology

Allan Blackman composite

Photo: Nobel Prize, Otago University, The Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and Weizmann Institute of Science,

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