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Our Changing World headlines with summaries.
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Kākāpō rangers
1 Mar 2019There is a hard-working team of island rangers helping save kākāpō, working day and night, and the chick tally has reached 44, in episode 11 of the Kākāpō Files.
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Americium - a radioactive, domestic do-gooder
27 Feb 2019Invented during war, radioactive americium has become a bit of a do-gooder that is in most homes. Find out more with AUT's Allan Blackman in episode 3 of Elemental.
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Aluminium - light & versatile
25 Feb 2019Aluminium is a light, well-known metal with lots of useful properties. Join AUT chemistry professor Allan Blackman for episode 2 of Elemental.
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Actinium - rare & radioactive
22 Feb 2019The first alphabetical element in the periodic table is actinium. It is a heavy radioactive element, as we discover in episode 1 of Elemental, with Professor Allan Blackman from AUT.
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Flying kākāpō sperm
21 Feb 2019In a world-first for kākāpō conservation, a drone (nicknamed the 'spermcopter') has flown kākāpō sperm across Whenua Hou / Codfish Island - the Kākāpō Files was there for episode 10.
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Plastic pollution in streams - a citizen science effort
21 Feb 2019NIWA freshwater scientist Amanda Valois is co-opting citizen scientists to work out where plastic rubbish in streams is coming from.
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Tales from the periodic table
20 Feb 2019In the prequel to Elemental, AUT's Allan Blackman introduces us to Dmitri Mendeleev and chemistry's periodic table of elements.
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Fush 'n' chups and the Kiwi accent
The distinctive New Zealand accent and why young women lead the way in the evolution of a uniquely Kiwi way of talking.
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On the island
12 Feb 2019More than 160 kākāpō eggs have been laid and the first 21 chicks have hatched, but there is also news of the first chick death, in episode 9 of the Kākāpō Files.
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Archey's frogs thriving in the King Country
7 Feb 2019The King Country population of the highly threatened Archey's frog is thriving, thanks to years of rat control.
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Round two begins
5 Feb 2019The chicks that have hatched are off to Dunedin, the females have started mating again, and there is breeding action on Hauturu, all in episode 8 of the Kākāpō Files.
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The chicks are hatching
31 Jan 2019The first two chicks of the 2019 kākāpō breeding season have hatched and the exciting news keeps coming in, in episode 7 of the Kākāpō Files.
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Squishy drug delivery
An octopus squeezing through a small space and a squishy ball have inspired a new way of delivering drugs through the skin that is being developed at the University of Otago.
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The Kākāpō Files: Full House
26 Jan 2019Forty eight out of fifty kākāpō females on the southern islands have mated, nesting is well underway and the first AI has been carried out, all in episode 6 of the Kākāpō Files.
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'Fish ear bones are like a diary'
24 Jan 2019Fish ear bones are tiny treasure troves of information about a fish's life, its environment and even local weather.
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Super-studs & hitting the reset button
17 Jan 2019The most popular kākāpō males will get a chance to do it all over again as the females are encouraged to mate and nest for a second time, in episode 5 of the Kākāpō Files.
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Our relationship with urban green spaces
16 Jan 2019Otago University science communication student Karthic Sivanandham investigates urban nature and how we relate to it.
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Sounds of science - a new Our Changing World theme
15 Jan 2019Our brand-new 2019 opening theme is made from 20 eclectic sounds of science & nature that have featured on Our Changing World, ranging from birds to robots.
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Action stations
10 Jan 2019Don't count your kākāpō chicks until they hatch, kākāpō leaky homes and lots more kākāpō sex, all in episode 4 of the Kākāpō Files.
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Woof Woof the talking tui
9 Jan 2019Woof Woof the talking tui inspired University of Otago student Joel Zwartz to find out how birds and people talk.
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Busy birds
3 Jan 2019Kākāpō breeding action really kicked off on Christmas Eve and in episode 3 of the Kākāpō Files we discover it is in full swing.
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Never ask a boy 'why?'
Science communication student Mary Rabbidge takes a look at the brains of teenage boys, to find out why they behave the way they do.
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Early birds
22 Dec 2018In episode 2 of the Kākāpō Files we find out that when it comes to kākāpō breeding the early birds are, well, very early.
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Kākāpō - night parrot
21 Dec 2018The kākāpō is one of the world's rarest birds, and in the first episode of the Kākāpō Files we learn about the giant flightless parrot's 'love triangle.'
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