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Scientist worried for Te Papa's biological collections
26 Jul 2018A world-renowned fossil expert is concerned about the impact of a restructure at Te Papa on its important natural history collections.
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Robots - Nao and the Bristlebots
19 Jul 2018A humanoid robot called Nao, and swarms of bio-inspired little robots that behave like social insects, wowed crowds at Dunedin's International Science Festival.
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Biofuels made from sawdust
19 Jul 2018Researchers say that liquid fuels made from sawdust from specially planted plantation trees could be a winner in New Zealand.
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Our Changing World for 12 July 2018
12 Jul 2018Whale expert Will Rayment tells us all about New Zealand's southern right whales, and engineers are studying the flow of rivers in the University of Auckland's Water Engineering Laboratory.
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Bringing the river into the lab
12 Jul 2018In the Water Engineering Laboratory at the University of Auckland, engineers are recreating rivers, to understand how water flows, and how floods behave.
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Southern right whales returning to mainland New Zealand
12 Jul 2018A southern right whale in Wellington Harbour is a sign that the species is recovering after being hunted nearly to extinction.
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Native birds doing well in Wellington
5 Jul 2018A renaissance in native forest bird numbers in the capital is helped by urban bush and Predator Free Wellington efforts.
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Hunt for kauri that are resistant to kauri dieback disease
5 Jul 2018Researchers at Scion hope that thousands of tiny kauri seedlings might include some that are resistant to kauri dieback disease.
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Mapping the world's sea floor
28 Jun 2018Seabed 2030 is an international collaboration to map the world's sea floor, much of which is unmapped.
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Asteroids, dinosaurs and international tension
28 Jun 2018Astronomer Duncan Steel is an expert in detecting asteroids and comets, and in defending the earth from potential impacts.
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Wasp genomes revealed
21 Jun 2018Wasps are a big problem in New Zealand, and scientists hope that knowing the genomes of common and German wasps will help them find novel ways of controlling the pests.
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Antarctica's ice is melting
21 Jun 2018Research reveals new evidence about past, present and future impacts of climate change on Antarctica's ice.
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Havre - the world's largest deep ocean volcanic eruption
14 Jun 2018Geologists have discovered that the 2012 eruption of Havre volcano, on the Kermadec Arc, was the world's largest submarine volcanic eruption.
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Finding new drugs from the sea
Michele Prinsep is a 'drug hunter' - she looks for potential pharmaceuticals in marine organisms and cyanobacteria.
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Exercise and a special video game boost kids' brains
Psychologist David Moreau is working with New Zealand schools to find out if exercise combined with a computer game aimed at brain training could help improve kids' brains.
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Edible bioplastic - food wrap of the future?
University of Otago researchers are developing the ultimate heat-and-eat: an edible bioplastic food wrap, using waste from the corn and shellfish industries.
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A citizens' jury on euthanasia
Fifteen Dunedin citizens took part in a University of Otago citizens' jury to discuss legalising euthanasia and assisted dying.
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Understanding New Zealand's largest fault
17 May 2018New Zealand's first underwater observatories are recording the 'creaks and groans' of our largest fault to better understand slow-slip earthquakes.
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Mistletoe rescue mission
17 May 2018Botanists have banded together to bring native mistletoes back to Wellington city, using seeds rescued from a plant growing on a dying tree.
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Book charts changing face of Otago Peninsula
10 May 2018An environmental historian charts the transformation of the Otago Peninsula from rich forest to grassy pasture in the book "The Face of Nature."
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World-first probe into an active submarine volcano
10 May 2018Geologists on board the JOIDES Resolution research ship are attempting to drill into the flanks of the submarine hydrothermal Brothers Volcano.
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Quit or persist - it's all in the brain
Blake Porter is investigating what happens in our brain when we decide to quit something that is good for us or persist with something that is bad us.
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'My favourite insect is a cicada'
3 May 2018Olly Hills, aged 11, is a big fan of insects, and author of the field guide 'Cicadas of New Zealand.'
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Caring for waterlogged waka
26 Apr 2018Dilys Johns is an archaeologist who specialises in conserving waterlogged Māori taonga such as ancient waka and wooden gardening tools.
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