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Giant underwater landslide in the Kaikōura Canyon
1 Dec 2016The magnitude 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake triggered a massive underwater landslide that swept down the offshore canyon system and was still flowing more than 300 km away.
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When orchids smell like mushrooms - a tale of botanical deceit
1 Dec 2016Spider orchids that smell like mushrooms are fooling fungus gnats into pollinating them, and Carlos Lehnebach wants to find out more about this botanical deception.
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Science winners - 2016 Research Honours
24 Nov 2016The 2016 Research Honours have been awarded and we talk to the 2016 winners of the Rutherford, Macdiarmid and Callaghan medals.
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Mena the penguin-detector dog
24 Nov 2016Alastair Judkins is a penguin hunter - and his secret weapon is a 'super nose', a dog called Mena. Alison Ballance joins them on a little penguin search in Wellington.
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The Science Of... Snow
15 Nov 2016What is snow? How and where is it made? Why is it white? Alison Ballance and Katy Gosset head to Mt Ruapehu in search of the answers to all your questions about snow.
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The Science Of... Meth Houses
How safe are meth houses really? And what's it like to go inside? Katy Gosset and Alison Ballance take the plunge and ask how much meth is too much when it comes to setting a national standard?
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Tour de Science
3 Nov 2016David Klein is taking his award-winning one-man science show on tour, by bicycle, around small town community halls.
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A Community Cockle Count
8 May 2014The eighth Pauatahanui Cockle Count involved more than a hundred locals digging and sieving for cockles in the intertidal.
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Rowi - the Rarest Kiwi
24 Apr 2014Rowi are New Zealand's rarest kiwi, and 'egg rescues' that see chicks hatched and raised in captivity have resulted in a big increase in the bird's numbers
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Joan Wiffen and her Dinosaurs
19 Jun 2014A tribute to Joan Wiffen, a self-taught palaeontologist who discovered New Zealand's first dinosaur bone in a Hawke's Bay streambed in the 1970s.
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Rutherford's Den Restoration
9 Oct 2014A rare glimpse of how Rutherford's Den and Christchurch's iconic Arts Centre are being restored after the earthquakes
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Urban Cats and Native Wildlife
27 Feb 2014Remote cameras in city gardens and 'kitty cams' worn by domestic cats are revealing what they catch and where they wander
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Hauraki Gulf
26 Jun 2014Hauraki Gulf is a playground, wildlife hotspot, foodbasket and highway - and local councils hope the Sea Change project will help turn around the Gulf's poor health and struggling ecology
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Hip Revision Surgery
Peter Devane performs revision surgery on Fiona James to replace her existing hip implants with a newer, more robust material
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Measuring Gravity Waves
An international team of scientists is using an aircraft equipped with remote-sensing instruments to capture gravity waves above New Zealand.
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Bug Hotels
7 Aug 2014Landscape architecture students at Lincoln University have designed 'bug hotels' to try and encourage invertebrate biodiversity in urban areas
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Time Travelling through Mead Stream Gorge
26 Feb 2015A fieldtrip through Mead Stream Gorge, north of Kaikoura, which provides a continuous record of 80 million years of geological history.
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Mission Complete: New Zealand's first ocean glider takes to the seas
3 Sep 2015NIWA oceanographers retrieve an autonomous ocean glider after a successful two-week deployment to explore physical and biological properties of the ocean.
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Tracking the Lapita Expansion Across the Pacific
13 Aug 2015Veronika Meduna joins Pacific archaeologists at the oldest cemetery in the pacific to find out about the Lapita and their epic voyage of discovery.
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Testing Volcanic Ballistics with a Cannon and Catapult
6 Aug 2015Geologists are using a cannon, a trebuchet and silly putty wrapped in condoms to investigate volcanic ballistics and better understand volcanic eruptions
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Expedition to Subantarctic Antipodes Island
5 Feb 2015Alison Ballance joins a DOC expedition to remote Antipodes Island, and discovers its strange - and noisy - inhabitants
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Black Petrels - New Zealand's Most At-Risk Seabird
26 Mar 2015Black petrels are a common sight at sea in the Hauraki Gulf, and are at risk from being accidentally caught by recreational and commercial fishers
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Medical Maggots for Wound Healing
Maggots are used by hospitals and veterinary clinics to treat chronic ulcers and wounds, often as a last resort, and are bred in an insectary in Upper Hutt
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The Art and Science of Beer
The Hop Lab in Motueka is a small research brewery, where a Plant and Food Research scientists are breeding, growing and testing new varieties of hops
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