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Antipodes Island mouse eradication successfully completed
14 Jul 2016The Million Dollar Mouse project has successfully completed the mouse eradication on Antipodes Island.
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Changing times at Our Changing World
14 Jul 2016As Our Changing World is about to change to a shorter format, Veronika Meduna looks back at some of her favourite stories about science and the environment.
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Marine science round-up
14 Jul 2016A medley of marine science news including the challenges facing mussel bed restoration in the Hauraki Gulf, a multi-level habitat cascade that depends on cockles at its base, the discovery that…
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Exactly where is sea level? Gravity can tell us
14 Jul 2016After two years of measuring gravity from a plane, LINZ has just released a new vertical datum for New Zealand and its coastal seas. This allows the accurate measurement of sea level.
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Wairau Bar: How it all began
Veronika Meduna joins Rangitane iwi members and scientists at Wairau Bar, New Zealand's most significant archaeological site, to find out about the place and its people, who were among the first to…
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Taniwha - the human-powered submarine
7 Jul 2016Team Taniwha, from the University of Auckland, has designed and built a human-powered submarine, that has borrowed ideas from leather-jacket fish, and currently holds the world record for a…
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Rarest sea lions in the world - and the threats they face
7 Jul 2016New Zealand sea lions are the rarest sea lion in the world. They face a number of threats, including disease, food limitation and by-catch in commercial fisheries - so which threat is most important?
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World’s largest telescope to track the dawn of the cosmos
In the middle of the Australian outback, scientists are building the world's largest radio telescope. Veronika Meduna pays a visit.
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Assisted evolution of corals
30 Jun 2016Veronika Meduna explores the controversial idea of assisted evolution, and whether it could help scientists identify coral species that could better adapt to warming ocean temperatures and…
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Koala genome
30 Jun 2016Veronika Meduna meets wildlife geneticist Rebecca Johnson to discuss how genomics can help with efforts to protect the koala.
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Native seed bank
30 Jun 2016The New Zealand Indigenous Flora Seed Bank is collecting and storing the seeds of native plants as a long-term insurance policy to ensure the survival of species.
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Restoring hearing
23 Jun 2016Veronika Meduna visits Cochlear, a medical device company that produces bionic ears, to find out how cochlear implants could help some of the 700,000 New Zealanders who live with a hearing disability.
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Synchrotron science: from cancer drugs to sheep skin leather
Veronika Meduna meets Kiwi scientist Tom Caradoc-Davies to find out how he uses the Australian synchrotron to work out the 3D structure of proteins to make cancer drugs more specific.
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The garden bird survey turns 10
23 Jun 2016More than a million birds have been counted in the last nine years of the garden bird survey, and sparrows and silvereyes consistently top the rankings.
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Biocontrol - fighting bad weeds
23 Jun 2016Seed-eating weevils are one of the latest biocontrol agents introduced into New Zealand to control the invasive weed, Darwin's barberry.
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Pesticide bad news for bee learning and memory
16 Jun 2016Chemists and zoologists have teamed up to investigate the impact of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on bee learning and memory
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DNA transfer between brain cells
Malaghan Institute scientist Mike Berridge recently discovered a fundamentally new process of mitochondrial DNA transfer between cells. He now investigates whether this is also the case between brain…
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Microbes and moods
We are more microbe than human, and our microbiome may be affecting our brain, moods and behaviour.
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Big hopes for tiny wasp mite
16 Jun 2016A tiny mite, that could transmit diseases such as viruses, is being investigated as a possible biocontrol agent for introduced social wasps.
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Gotta have skin
A tougher artificial skin, that is quick to grow in the lab, could revolutionise the treament of burn victims and increase their chance of survival.
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Future of sea level rise science
9 Jun 2016John Church, an expert on sea level rise and one of the scientists who could lose his job at CSIRO, discusses how ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are contributing to sea level rise now and in…
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Diatom blooms, extinctions and climate
9 Jun 2016Phytoplankton, which accounts for half of the planet's total biological productivity, leave a clear fossil footprint, which allows palaeontologists to trace past environmental change and extinction…
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