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Too much salt
We live in a high salt world, so how feasible is it in our current shopping environment to eat a low sodium diet
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Kermadec region becomes an open ocean sanctuary
1 Oct 2015This week, the government announced the creation of the Kermadec ocean sanctuary, which covers 620,000 square kilometres and bans mining, prospecting and fishing.
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Planning for a pandemic
The Great Barrier Island community discusses the frightening prospect that they could be the sole survivors after a global flu pandemic.
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Wildbase - a hospital dedicated to native wildlife
24 Sep 2015At Wildbase, New Zealand's only dedicated wildlife hospital, vets treat more than 300 native animals each year as well as doing research on conservation issues.
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Oil off a duck's back
24 Sep 2015It takes 400 litres of freshwater to clean a seabird that has been covered in oil, but new research using ducks shows that seawater is a viable alternative
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Rethinking enzyme evolution
24 Sep 2015Proteins have evolved over many millions of years - but they can also evolve rapidly, in just years, and this offers insights into how evolution itself works
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The worm returns
24 Sep 2015Many farms in New Zealand are missing deep burrowing earthworms, that can help better grass growth, so Nicole Schon is relocating worms to farms in need
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Viruses in invasive Argentine ants
17 Sep 2015Ecologists at Victoria University have discovered that the invasive Argentine ants host a virus associated with bee deaths.
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Shining a light on our biological clock
Guy Warman, at the University of Auckland, explores how anaesthesia affects the body's biological clock and whether light therapy could help reduce sleep disruption post surgery.
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East Antarctica not a 'sleeping giant'
17 Sep 2015An expedition to east Antarctica's Totten glacier returns with evidence suggesting that east Antarctica may not be as resistant to melting as once thought.
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'Orchard in a box' - using GM to breed better apples
A greenhouse that is also a strict containment facility allows scientists to experimentally add apple genes to apple trees to speed up the breeding of new varieties
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New Zealand's first national bee health survey
17 Sep 2015Bees are in trouble and to get a better idea of might be contributing to colony loses, Landcare Research is calling on beekeepers to help with a national survey.
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New Zealand's rich diversity of soils
10 Sep 2015To mark the International Year of Soils, we look at New Zealand's rich diversity of soils
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How kiwifruit helps control blood sugar
Food scientists are investigating breakfast cereals and combinations with kiwifruit in search of a breakfast that helps control blood sugar levels
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Complexity, resilience and bees
10 Sep 2015Jason Tylianakis is an ecologist trying to understand how our complex natural world responds to change
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Does your first language influence your trombone playing?
Matthias Heyne is investigating whether the tongue positions we learn as part of our native language influences the way trombonists play their instruments
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Psychology of Climate Change
Victoria University psychology lecturer Marc Wilson discusses why some people remain unsure about climate change, despite the overwhelming evidence.
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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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