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Topics - At the University of California they've developed a new way to make oxygen that doesn't need plants. It uses UV light and it's splashed across the journal Science. Post match grumpiness has… Read more Audio

Topics - SkyCity is building its new hotel on land surrendered by the taxpayer for the creation of Sky City's National Convention Centre. In both Canada and New Zealand, universities have dropped in… Read more Audio

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Topics - your sense of smell could predict when you'll die, that's the dramatic headline from a new study, and its a pretty respectable study. The University of Chicago. John Herridge a Christchurch… Read more Audio

Topics - the very short courses in tourism at the wananga and the Warriors caught up in this $6m scandal. Nearly 100 players and staff "completed" a course funded for 18 weeks in just one day. The… Read more Audio

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Topics - apparently 8 years ago a much-discussed study estimated 304 million lakes on the surface of the land, but a careful count using high-resolution satellite images says 117 million. Newly… Read more Audio

Topics - the Prime Minister isn't ruling out New Zealand troops being deployed to Iraq or Syria to fight ISIS. It's understood a squad of 12 SAS personnel have been in "pre-deployment mode" for a… Read more Audio

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Topics - "Coming off caffeine reduces your cognitive performance and has a negative impact on your mood. The only way to get back to normal is to drink caffeine, and when you do drink it, you feel… Read more Audio

topics - the Prime Minister isn't ruling out New Zealand troops being deployed to Iraq or Syria to fight ISIS. John Key says ISIS is more brutal and more sophisticated than the al-Qaeda-linked Taliban… Read more Audio

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