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Tracking kākāpō the smart way
23 Mar 2017Smart electronic transmitters are revolutionising the way Department of Conservation rangers keep track of kākāpō.
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Catalyst - from corn to plastic
16 Mar 2017Chemist Sally Brooker is developing a catalyst that could be used to produce biodegradable plastic from corn.
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Breaking Babel
In a city as culturally diverse as Auckland, how is the Kiwi accent changing and evolving?
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Proof - the physics of creating a gas droplet
9 Mar 2017New Zealand physicists developed a theory about ultra cold gas 'droplets' that was proved in an experiment in Germany.
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Reading between the vines
9 Mar 2017Drones - or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - can get a bad rap, but they can now generate meaningful data for a range of different industries.
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Haven - the story of a tropical seabird island
2 Mar 2017A visit to tropical Cousin Island in the Seychelles reveals that predator-free islands the world over are a haven for wildlife.
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Voice of the Iceberg 1: Discovery
27 Feb 2017Artist Joseph Michael and a team of eight film-makers head to Antarctica on a yacht, to record the sights and sounds of icebergs.
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The unusual case of the 'growing' glaciers
23 Feb 2017Glaciers around the world are melting and shrinking, but glaciologists have been investigating why some New Zealand glaciers bucked the trend between 1983 and 2005.
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Real or invisible threat?
23 Feb 2017Sonia Sly talks with psychologist Gwenda Willis about what drives our fears when confronted with the idea of living next door to a sex offender.
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Uncovering the past
Archaeologists have been working alongside the Milton community to excavate an old Anglican cemetery, to find 'lost burials' and restore the stories of early Otago farmers.
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Predator-free in the city
9 Feb 2017Wellington's Polhill Restoration Project volunteers are looking after rare birds such as nesting kaka and tieke that are spilling into the 'halo' around Zealandia Sanctuary.
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Maximising our children's potential
What sorts of hopes and dreams do parents have for their children, and do all Kiwi kids have the same opportunities to maximise their potential.
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Quantum mechanics - do deep-sea bacteria do it?
26 Jan 2017Quantum mechanics describes how our universe behaves at an atomic level. It involves waves and particles, and deep-sea bacteria use it to harvest light very efficiently.
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Winners or losers? Antarctic starfish and climate change
26 Jan 2017Warming temperatures and increasing ocean acidity are looming climate change threats in Antarctica - and scientists are looking at their effect on Antarctic starfish.
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Flicking the switch for electric cars
28 Apr 2016A switch to electric transport could go a long way towards reducing New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions. Veronika Meduna takes a road trip with other electric car owners.
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Pharmac and its role in making drugs available
Science communication student Garrett Chin talks with doctors and a health economist about the challenges that Pharmac faces in buying drugs, and what happens when new but expensvie drugs become…
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Museums and their role in modern society
16 Jan 2017Emma Hanisch, a student at the University of Otago, loves museums - and she wonders what needs to be done to keep them relevant and exciting.
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Did early Polynesians sail to the Americas?
Science communications student Ellen Rykers ponders the Polynesians and their journeys around the Pacific, wondering where they might have got to.
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Hedgehogs – good or bad?
9 Jan 2017Hedgehogs are cute - but they're also deadly killers. Science communication student Harriet Ampt is investigating.
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Uplifted - marine life on the Kaikōura coast after the quake
22 Dec 2016The Kaikōura Peninsula was uplifted 1 metre during the magnitude 7.8 earthquake - and marine life on the rocky shore was left high and dry.
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Surviving life on the outside
15 Dec 2016Sonia Sly finds out about a psychological programme to help offenders better adjust to living in the community when they are released from prison.
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From wine waste to safer food packaging
University of Auckland researchers are using tannin-rich wine waste to create safer food packaging that has antibacterial properties.
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Climathon - new ideas to deal with climate change
8 Dec 2016Take a hundred people motivated to do something about climate change, give them 24 hours to brainstorm ideas about practical solutions, do that around the world and you have a Climathon.
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When the Kekerengu Fault ruptured
8 Dec 2016Geologists are combing the ground in the wake of the 7.8M Kaikōura earthquake looking for clues, to understand what happened when 9 faults rupture at the same time.
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