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Seals- friend or foe?
2 Jan 2018Science communication student Lana Young, from the University of Otago, talks to fishers and a marine mammal scientist about the rising number of seals and sea lions.
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What's happening with our freshwater?
26 Dec 2017Science communication student Tegan Good, from the University of Otago, takes a look a freshwater issues in New Zealand.
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Good news for Kaikōura's Hutton shearwaters
21 Dec 2017The first ground visit to the Hutton's shearwater breeding colony since the November 2017 Kaikōura earthquake shows damage not as bad as feared.
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What do we do? Agriculture in the age of synthetic food
21 Dec 2017If technologies like meat grown from stem cells and milk grown in vats take off, how will the New Zealand agricultural sector respond?
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The sobering science of drinking and driving
Waikato University research shows that drinking socially makes it harder to tell when you're too drunk to drive - and even a low blood alcohol level makes our driving unsafe.
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Scientific curiosity and Koraunui School
14 Dec 2017Scientific curiosity was the order of the day when Koraunui School, in the Hutt Valley, hosted its recent Bioblitz.
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Tawaki - the mysterious forest penguin
7 Dec 2017Scientists are discovering that tawaki, or Fiordland crested penguins, living in MIlford Sound are thriving - and breaking all the penguin rules.
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An atlas of coronary arteries
An atlas containing hundreds of coronary arteries mapped using MRI scans will help improve heart health.
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Urban lizards
30 Nov 2017A hunt for urban lizards in New Zealand involves more than a thousand buckets as well as citizen scientists.
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Our Changing World for 23 November 2017
23 Nov 2017Kiwi scientists and entrepreneurs talk about putting rockets and satellites into space, and using data from NZ's two radio telescopes.
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New Zealand in space
23 Nov 2017Kiwi scientists and entrepreneurs talk about their plans to put satellites and rockets into space, and the role of NZ radio telescopes in precision GPS.
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Our Changing World for 16 November 2017
16 Nov 2017Protecting nature on private land with the QEII Trust, and creating the 1769 Garden to mark the first encounter between Maori and Captain Cook.
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The 1769 Garden
16 Nov 2017The 1769 Garden commemorates the first encounter between Maori and the crew of the Endeavour, under the command of Captain James Cook, at Gisborne in October 1769.
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Protecting nature on private land
16 Nov 2017The Queen Elizabeth II National Trust is celebrating 40 years of helping landowners protect 4,400 pieces of land with high conservation values
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Mapping the gut
A flexible tool to measure electrical signals in our gut could detect serious medical conditions.
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Our Changing World for 9 November 2017
9 Nov 2017New discoveries from New Zealand's ancient past, and mapping the gut's electrical signals.
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The New Zealand fossil revolution
9 Nov 2017In the last few years there's been a revolution in our understanding of New Zealand's ancient animals - there were once crocodiles as well as small land mammals.
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Our Changing World for 2 November 2017
2 Nov 2017Engineer looks at the physics of blood splatter, chemist wins 2017 Hill Tinsley Award for new drugs made with metals, and freshwater biologist wins 2017 Marsden Medal.
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Using noble metals to kill cancer
The winner of the 2017 Hill Tinsley Medal is developing anti-cancer drugs based on noble metals such as platinum and iridium.
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Big award for studying small lake critters
2 Nov 2017The 2017 Marsden Medal is awarded to Carolyn Burns for her internationally renowned research into New Zealand's deep southern lakes.
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The physics of blood spatter
Engineer Mark Jermy has been helping forensics investigators understand the science behind blood spatter evidence at crime scenes.
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Understanding our immune system
Bruce Beutler received the 2011 Nobel Prize for discoveries about the innate immune system in mammals.
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It's a microbial world
Science writer Ed Yong investigates the complex world of microbes in his book "I Contain Multitudes."
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Inherited heart disease: you're not doomed by your DNA
Anna Pilbrow says that a complex interaction of genetic factors underpin our risk of getting heart disease - and leading a healhy lifestyle lowers the risk.
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