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Human hunting and Stewart Island Shags
3 Sep 2015Hunting by Maori had very different effects on the Stewart Island and Otago populations of Stewart Island shags.
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Theta-R - a sound and light installation
3 Sep 2015Among the works at the recent Lux festival in Wellington was an audiovisual kinetic sculpture called Theta-R
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Junk Food: plastic pollution is a growing threat to seabirds
3 Sep 2015A new study says that 90% of the world's seabirds ingest plastic, and those seabirds that feed in the Tasman Sea are most at risk from plastic
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Firing up the Plant Barbecue
3 Sep 2015To find the best plants to use in green firebreaks, biologists are testing the flammability of plants on the 'plant barbecue'
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Volcanic Hazard at Mt Taranaki
27 Aug 2015Mt Taranaki is one of New Zealand's most distinctive volcanoes, with a history of euptions and the potential to erupt again in the future.
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Vanuatu after Cyclone Pam
27 Aug 2015On 13 March 2015, Cyclone Pam hit Vanuatu. It was the worst natural disaster in the nation's history, and four months on, we ask how people are doing.
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Neutrinos - a Poem
Neutrinos is a poem by Janis Freegard from her collection The Glass Rooster, published by Auckland University Press
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Berry Good News for the Brain
Plant and Food Research have shown that blackcurrants can help in tasks involving memory and concentration
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The Bugs are in the House
27 Aug 2015After a year it's time to find out what's taken up residence in Lincoln University's Bug Hotels
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Trapdoor spider dinnertime
20 Aug 2015Vikki Smith introduces Alison Ballance to a trapdoor spider called Sweetheart - and you can hear the amazing sound of a spider chewing a beetle.
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Building Better Flexi Bridges
20 Aug 2015Low-damage precast concrete bridges featuring flexible steel tendons and energy dissipators that act as fuses are being tested at Canterbury University
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Designing Landscapes with People in Mind
20 Aug 2015Landscape architect Mick Abbott wants to involve as many people as possible in meaningful ecological restoration projects
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Giving People A Voice
20 Aug 2015Computer scientist Hamidf Sharifzadeh is regenerating a natural-sounding voice for people who lost the ability to speak
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'Air Puffs', Speech and Mobile Phones
13 Aug 2015Adding air puffs that we produce during speech to mobile phones and hearing aids might make understanding conversations in noisy environments easier
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How Nature is Good for our Well-being
6 Aug 2015Environmental scientist Lin Roberts argues that nature's ecosystem services are good for our well-being as well as the planet
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Making Urban Bushland Better
6 Aug 2015New Plymouth has more pockets of urban bush than any other NZ city, and ecologists study them to improve the success of ecological restorations
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A Community Wind Farm for Blueskin Bay
30 Jul 2015The Blueskin Resilient Communities Trust is working towards building three community-owned wind turbines that will help build the community's resilience and energy independence
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The Road to Paris - UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres
30 Jul 2015UN climate chief Christiana Figueres says a global, legally-binding agreement will be reached at Paris climate summit, but concedes it falls short of two degree target.
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A Treasure Trove of Natural Sciences at Puke Ariki
New Plymouth's museum Puke Ariki is catalogueing its vast natural sceinces collections to make them more accessible to the public.
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North Island Brown Kiwi Genome
23 Jul 2015The genome of the North Island brown kiwi has just been published by an international team of researchers
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From Egg to Dinner – Breeding Better Salmon
Veronika Meduna visits a salmon hatchery to find out more about how salmon are bred and farmed, and about the family tree of each fish.
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Sleep Apnoea
Ruth Beran's award-winning feature on sleep apnoea follows Maui Stewart to the sleep clinic on a journey to better health.
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Sea Urchins and Their 'Landscape of Fear'
23 Jul 2015Do sea urchins live in a 'landscape of fear' and is the mere presence of predatory crayfish and snapper enough to change their behaviour?
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Children mixing screens with food
16 Jul 2015As young people use screens more and more, public health researcher Sam Marsh is looking into how much food they are eating when using different media like computers and TVs.
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