Navigation for Our Changing World

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Thursday, 7 December 2023

Three people look at an array of six computer monitors and 10 larger screens displaying maps and data.

On alert – the National Geohazard Monitoring Centre

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Thursday, 30 November 2023

A close-up of a small bright yellow bird being clutched in a person's hand.

Monitoring the Makarora mohua

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Thursday, 23 November 2023

A close up of cells in a beehive showing some open with larvae in them, and some covered over with wax. Honey bees gather on the surface of the hexagonal cells.

A new way to help honey bees

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Monday, 20 November 2023

The Turning Point

OCW recommends: The Turning Point

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Thursday, 16 November 2023

A large metal cylinder embedded in beams with a glowing purple light emanating from its centre.

Plasma rockets in space

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Thursday, 9 November 2023

A man with long hair wearing a t-shirt and headphones stands in front of a microphone.

Helping to revitalise Moriori culture

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Thursday, 2 November 2023

A world map centred on the Pacific Ocean. The ocean is coloured according to temperature, with blue representing cooler temperatures and red representing warmer temperatures. There is a large red blob extending across the Pacific Ocean from South America, but also lots of red everywhere.

Forecasting in changing times

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Thursday, 26 October 2023

Two men in white lab coats look at a glass tube filled with something yellow-green. The room is bathed in purple light and other scientific machines are displays are visible in the background.

The potential of plankton

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Thursday, 19 October 2023

Two women stand in the shallows of a braided river channel. One is holding a device that looks like a handheld metal detector. The other is standing downstream wielding a net attached to two poles. There is a bucket next to the second woman. Beyond the riverbed, there are foothills and snow-capped mountains beneath a cloud-streaked blue sky.

Life in the fast and slow lanes of braided rivers

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Thursday, 12 October 2023

An illustration of a giant penguin with a long beak exiting the ocean onto a sandy beach. It is surrounded by smaller penguins, also with long beaks.

Why are penguins so cool?

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Thursday, 5 October 2023

A man in a shirt sits next to a model of the human body with muscles visible. He is touching the bicep of the model.

Muscles young and old

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Thursday, 28 September 2023

The hands of a person wearing a bright orange fleece gently hold a small bird with mottled brown and white plumage above and rust-coloured plumage on its breast. The bird has a small device attached to its back and blue and green rings around one of its legs.

Dotterels: The Southland underdog

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Thursday, 21 September 2023

A collage of six different foods that make unusual flavour pairings: prawns and vanilla bean, milk chocolate and asaparagus, and gorgonzola and kiwifruit.

The recipe for food pairing

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Thursday, 14 September 2023

A streetfighter-style graphic showing a northern lapwing on the left with the word 'Ireland' overlaid, and a kiwi on the right with the words 'New Zealand' overlaid. There is a 'vs' in between the two images, and the words Part 2 above the lapwing.

The Great Ireland vs New Zealand Bird-off: Part 2

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Thursday, 7 September 2023

Image is like a computer graphic fighter versus set up. There's a northern lapwing on the left with the word Ireland. Vs in the middle, and on the right a picture of the kiwi but NZ over it.

The great Ireland vs. New Zealand bird-off: Part 1

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Thursday, 31 August 2023

A portrait of Grant. He is in front of a diagram of the anatomy of the ear. He has a wry smile and is wearing a blue shirt.

Retraining the tinnitus brain

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Thursday, 24 August 2023

Two people in outdoors gear wearing backpacks are smiling, standing atop a craggy mountain peak shrouded in mist.

Exercise on the brain

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Thursday, 17 August 2023

A woman in a blazer and glasses stands in front of a blue sign holding a mechanical device.

Earthquake engineering meets breast cancer screening

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Thursday, 10 August 2023

Dore and Tauhou, a pair of young takahe, explore their new home after being released on Tors Ridge in Fiordland's Murchison Mountains.

Takahē dreamers

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Thursday, 3 August 2023

A close up of a grey and white seabird on a paper towel in a plastic box.

The petrel patrol

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Thursday, 27 July 2023

A close up of a snowflake

The science of snow

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Thursday, 20 July 2023

Dr Tom Wauters, smiling and wearing a hard hat and high vis, stands in front of a large D-shaped module.

Inside the nuclear fusion reactor ITER

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Thursday, 13 July 2023

Megan Ranapia, Dr Kura Paul Burke, Te Āmai Paul-Burke, Nick and Joe Burke.

Our taiao, our tohu - protecting the Waihi estuary

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Thursday, 6 July 2023

A man wearing headphones facing away from the camera, with a moving train blurred in the background.

The puzzle of the silent mind

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Thursday, 29 June 2023

A model of a human brain

Neurogenetic conditions in Aotearoa

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The microscope image featured in the logo is of the mineral labradorite, taken by Peregrin Hyde – www.perescope.co.nz.

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