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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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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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