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Silencing science
Shaun Hendy, the director of the centre of research excellence The Pūnaha Matatini, discusses his latest book, Silencing Science, in which he tackles the issue of why scientists are often reluctant to…
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The swallowing robot
12 May 2016A soft, swallowing robot that mimics the human oesophagus is being developed as a tool that food technologists could use to design better food for people with swallowing difficulties
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Dunedin's royal albatrosses and #royalcam
12 May 2016There are 26 chicks in the royal albatross colony at Dunedin's Taiaroa Head this year - and the #royalcam chick is very much in the public spotlight.
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Tim Flannery: an atmosphere of hope
5 May 2016Tim Flannery discusses his latest book, Atmosphere of Hope, and why he is hopeful that we will tackle climate change.
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Genetic impacts of crop domestication
5 May 2016Scientists at Te Papa Tongarewa are using some of New Zealand's endemic plants and DNA sequencing tools to track how genetic diversity changes during of the process of crop domestication.
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Measuring Dante's Hell
5 May 2016Len Fisher reveals how - and why - Galileo calculated the dimensions of the roof of Dante's Hell, and how this led to his discovery of the laws of mechanics that engineers use to this day.
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Whitebait mysteries – unravelling the lives of baby native fish
5 May 2016Baby native fish are in the spotlight as freshwater biologists unravel the mysteries of where these tiny creatures go in the first weeks of their lives.
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Acting on climate change - Royal Society of NZ report
28 Apr 2016In its latest report on climate change, the Royal Society of New Zealand lays out options for how we coudl reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Nematodes from the deep
28 Apr 2016Sediment samples collected from 6,000 - 9,000m deep in the Kermadec Trench were teeming with tiny nematode worms – over 100 new species were collected from just four samples.
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Survivors - New Zealand's tiny native frogs
28 Apr 2016After 35 years of counting threatened Archey's frog on the Coromandel Peninsula, Ben Bell has seen their numbers crash due to the chytrid fungal disease, and the population slowly recover.
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Thar she goes! On the tail of the Kermadec humpback whales
28 Apr 2016Satellite tagging has revealed that humpback whales that breed in Oceania socialise at Raoul Island in the Kermadecs and has shown where in Antarctica they go to feed.
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Marine maternity ward
21 Apr 2016Staff at the Island Bay Marine Education Centre have played midwife to baby carpet sharks that hatched almost a year after a female shark deposited the egg cases in a tank.
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Points, lines and polygons - the art of making maps
21 Apr 2016The 451 topographic maps that cover the length and breadth of New Zealand are a testament to the skills of a team of map makers at LINZ.
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Shy fish, bold fish - insights into the lives of native fish
21 Apr 2016To understand the food webs of ponds and lakes you need to understand the personalities and lives of individual fish
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Report brings climate change home
21 Apr 2016A new report published by the Royal Society of New Zealand highlights six key climate change implications for New Zealand.
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An ode to mangroves
14 Apr 2016Mangroves have a mixed reputation, with some people thinking of them as weeds while others, including writer Kennedy Warne, value them for their ecosystem function and as a natural breakwater.
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Long live the tapeworm - why parasites are a good idea
14 Apr 2016In a novel extension of the 'hygeine hypothesis', biologists argue we should save the parasites of endangered species for the sake of their host's immune system.
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Preventing dementia
Dementia researchers are looking for people with mild cognitive impairment for a longitudinal study to explore how Alzheimer's Disease develops from early stages of memory loss.
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Yellow-eyed penguin numbers hit new low
14 Apr 2016Yellow-eyed penguins have hit their lowest numbers on mainland New Zealand since the early 1990s, and it's the result of a number of issues in the marine environment
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Good for your joints - a smart device to improve how you walk
14 Apr 2016Smart socks and an ankle bracelet that uses small vibration motors might help us to retrain how we walk and stave off joint surgery
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When a river meets the sea
7 Apr 2016NIWA oceanographers are using Deep Cove in Doubtful Sound, where the tailrace from the Manapouri power station flows into the sea, as a natural laboratory to study complex fluid dynamics.
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Search for early signals of dementia with Parkinson's disease
Brain imaging scientist Tracy Melzer is using MRI scans to look for changes in the brain that could predict if a person with Parkinson's Disease will develop dementia.
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Three decades on the tail of Hector’s dolphins
7 Apr 2016After more than 30 years of studying the world's smallest dolphins Liz Slooten and Steve Dawson still enjoy getting out on the water to observe Hector's dolphins, writes Alison Ballance.
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E-textiles and smart fabrics
7 Apr 2016Smart fabrics and e-textiles are a blend of fashion and technology, and can include knitted fabric that has electronic sensors woven into it.
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