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Our Changing World for Thursday 12 November 2020

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  • Wahakura - a woven cradle to save babies' lives

    science health
    Professor David Tipene Leach has won the 2020 Tahunui-a-Rangi Award for leading the team that developed wahakura for safe shared sleeping.

    9:07 PM.The 2020 Tahunui-A-Rangi Award goes to David Tipene Leach for the wahakura, a woven bassinet to address the problem of sudden unexpected death in infancy. Read more Audio

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  • Award for using DNA to better understand plants & animals

    science environment
    University of Otago geneticist Neil Gemmell.

    9:07 PM.Geneticist Neil Gemmell has won the 2020 Hutton Medal for using DNA & new genomic technologies to better understant plants & animals. Read more Audio

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  • Our Changing World for 12 November 2020

    science health

    9:05 PM.The invention of a woven bassinet to save babies' lives & a geneticist seeking to understand plants & animals have won awards at the 2020 Research Honours Aotearoa. Audio

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  • Previous Episode: Thursday, 5 November 2020
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