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Booming kakapo numbers
25 Feb 2016The endangered kakapo is in the middle of a bumper breeding year that looks set to be the best ever, and conservationists are looking foward to the resulting population boom.
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Technology and learning
Veronika Meduna joins a school group for a morning at MindLab, using fruit and vegetables to build musical instruments.
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Hangi stones and magnetism
25 Feb 2016Hangi or oven stones are a record of the earth's magnetic field at the time they were heated and cooled, and they show a remarkable history of New Zealand's magnetic field for the past 600 years.
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Antarctica's ice sheets more sensitive to warming
An international team of scientists found that Antarctica's land-based ice sheets are more vulnerable to rising temperatures than they previously thought.
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Cheaper, greener and bendier solar cells
18 Feb 2016Victoria University chemist Jonathan Halpert discusses nano-scale materials he investigates for future photovoltaic cells.
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Eye of the storm - climate change in the Pacific
18 Feb 2016Kiribati president Anote Tong calls on political leaders to help low-lying Pacific island nations to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
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Spotted skinks on the move
18 Feb 2016Nearly a hundred spotted skinks were recently transferred from Matiu Somes Island to Zealandia Sanctuary in Wellington.
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Beetle versus spider
18 Feb 2016Jackie Spencer is investigating how the introduced venomous redback spider is affecting the threatened Cromwell chafer beetle, and what role rabbits play in the one-sided battle
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LIGO 'sees' gravitational waves
11 Feb 2016Researchers at the LIGO observatory have announced the direct observation of gravitational waves, which have been predicted by Albert Einstein just over a century ago.
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Could Alzheimers disease be preventable?
Alzheimers Disease and other forms of dementia may not be an inevitable part of ageing but preventable with some simple lifestyle changes, according to Oxford University emeritus professor David…
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In pursuit of the yellow octopus
11 Feb 2016NIWA fisheries scientists are surveying the prey species of the New Zealand sea lion, including the elusive yellow octopus, to find out how hard the endagered marine mammals have to work for their…
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Ecoblitz
11 Feb 2016An Ecoblitz combines measuring ecological diversity with enthusing high school students about science and their local environment
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Convicted for science
4 Feb 2016Italian seismologist Giulio Selvaggi is visiting New Zealand to talk about his experience of being first convicted, and then acquitted, of manslaughter following a deadly earthquake in the Italian…
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Genome sequencing every living kakapo
4 Feb 2016In an ambitious world-first, scientists are using crowd-funding to pay for genome sequences for all 125 living kakapo - the first time an entire population will be sequenced.
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Sexism in science
4 Feb 2016Theoretical chemist Nicola Gaston discusses her book about sexism in science and why she thinks the problem is pervasive and systemic.
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Booming bitterns
4 Feb 2016Australasian bitterns are one of New Zealand's most cryptic and threatened wetland birds, and the males attract females with a deep foghorn boom.
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Gold nuggets - formed by bacteria?
4 Feb 2016Geologists wonder if bacteria and biological processes might play a role in the growth of gold nuggets in Central Otago rivers, as well as chemical and physical processes.
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UK gives go-ahead for DNA editing of human embryos
4 Feb 2016The UK approves the use of new gene editing techniques on human embryos for research purposes.
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Alien invasions in Antarctica
28 Jan 2016Pete Convey, a polar ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey, discusses how growing numbers of tourists and a changing climate increase the risk of species invasions.
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The 'pee' in pest control - developing super lures
28 Jan 2016A team of biologists and chemists are developing super lures, based on pheromones found in animal urine, that they hope will be more attractive and longer lasting than food lures
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'Physics is cool' - nanocamper
28 Jan 2016Year 12 and 13 students join scientists at the MacDiarmid Institute for a week-long nanocamp of experimentation and learning.
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Lake Wanaka's grebes
21 Jan 2016John Darby began building floating nest platforms for Lake Wanaka's grebes three years ago - and they're a resounding success
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Kakapo breeding is 'all go'
21 Jan 2016The 2016 kakapo breeding season is underway, with the exciting news that a female with Fiordland genes has mated for the first time with two first-time males
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Say a prayer for me
11 Jan 2016Science commuication student Evan Balkcom investigates the internal effects of prayer, from the point of view of psycholgists and people who regularly pray
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