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Honey, I shrunk the lab
22 Jun 2017A lab-on-a-chip developed at the University of Canterbury is allowing biologists to measure the minute force generated by a single fungal thread.
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Will your roof withstand flying volcanic rocks?
15 Jun 2017Geologists are using a vertical cannon to test how different roofing materials - and even hard hats - can withstand the impact of flying volcanic rocks.
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Insects remarkably preserved in New Zealand amber
15 Jun 2017Amber is beautiful to look at - and it is also an incredible window into the prehistoric past.
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Engineering better stem cells
Stem cells have the potential to cure many diseases, but first, we need to find the best ways of growing them in the lab - and their physical environment may be key.
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Kauri dieback and how microbes sense the world
8 Jun 2017Microbes, such as the fungi-like kauri dieback disease, use chemicals to sense their world - and understanding this might help us to develop new treatments.
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The looming crisis of antimicrobial resistance
As more microbes develop resistance to every kind of antimicrobial treatment, the threat of dying from even common infectious diseases is increasing - so what should we be doing about it?
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Fructose and the diabetic heart
Kim Mellor suspects that fructose, as well as glucose, is causing diabetic heart disease and she is looking at its effect on heart cells and heart muscle.
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Volcanic eruptions and the Ash Lab
The Ash Lab at the University of Canterbury is where geologists test the impact of volcanic ash on all sorts of vital infrastructure.
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Noise and young ears
Massey University acoustics researchers have been working with childcare centres that are keen to lower noise levels and protect the hearing of young children.
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Proteins and their role in antibiotic resistance
Some antibiotics are designed to target the ribosomes of bacteria and disrupt the production of proteins - so how do the bacteria evolve antibiotic resistance?
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Science meets comedy
Tim Muller is a scientist by day and a comedian by night. He brings his one-man science-themed show to the NZ International Comedy Festival.
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Complexity - six months of Kaikōura earthquake science
11 May 2017Six months after the destructive magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, scientists are still unravelling what happened during this very complex seismic event.
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Shedding light on the world of moths
4 May 2017Ahi Pepe | Moth Net is a Te Reo-focused citizen science project involving primary schools collecting information about moths in their neighbourhoods.
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We need to talk about gene drives and gene editing
27 Apr 2017Genetic tools will help New Zealand meets its aim of being Predator Free by 2050 - but we need to understand what they are and have a public conversation about their use.
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The clover 'dress code'
20 Apr 2017Understanding the 'dress code' that allows clover plants to recognise friendly nitrogen-fixing bacteria could help us improve farming efficiency.
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The Sound Lab
Wyatt Page is concerned that the noisy world we live in and our increasing use of loud headphones is bad for our hearing.
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Better bone grafts - using silver
A project to develop and commercialise better bone grafting material using the antibacterial properties of silver nanoparticles is underway at the University of Otago.
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The Coastwatcher legacy
13 Apr 2017The Coastwatchers were small groups of men posted to New Zealand's subantarctic islands during the Second World War to watch for enemy shipping. Ian Telfer visits one of their historic huts.
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Plastic and seabirds: a lethal combination
6 Apr 2017Matthew Savoca talks about seabirds' fatal attraction to plastic, and how their incredible sense of smell is being fooled by rubbish.
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Rediscovered - the New Zealand storm petrel
6 Apr 2017The Northern New Zealand Seabird Trust has been trying to solve the many mysteries of our smallest seabird, the New Zealand storm petrel, which breeds on Hauturu / Little Barrier Island.
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Eavesdropping in Cook Strait
30 Mar 2017Whales, dolphins, earthquakes and boats are some of the sounds that make the underwater world of Cook Strait a noisy place.
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Master listeners
In a democratic society striving to give everyone a voice, have we lost the ability to listen?
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Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize 2016 - Rebecca Priestley
23 Mar 2017A science writer who says that science communication is an important way of enabling democracy, has won the 2016 Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize.
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Prime Minister's Science Prize 2016 - the Dunedin Study
The University of Otago team behind the long-running Dunedin Study has won the 2016 Prime Minister's Science Prize.
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