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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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Marine Science Round-Up
16 Jul 2015A baby colossal squid, studying under-ice algae in Antarctica, New Zealand sea lions, and a better fishing trawl net.
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Cleaning Up Our Coastlines
16 Jul 2015After more than a decade of cleaning up Auckland's waterways and removing 22 shipping containers full of rubbish, the Sea Cleaners Trust is ready to tackle the rest of our coastline.
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Salt, Blood Pressure and the Brain
A new study in rats shows that the link between high salt intake and high blood pressure is caused by changes in the brain
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Spinetail Devil Rays
9 Jul 2015Electronic tags used to measure the survival of spinetail devil rays released after being caught by tuna fishing boats have revealed long journeys to the tropics and deep dives
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The Sshhmute - A Practice Mute for Brass Instruments
In his New Plymouth workshop, Trevor Bremner designs and produces the sshhmute, a practice mute for brass instruments
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Improving Stent Design with MRI
Susann Beier is using MRI and computational models to analyse flow of blood like fluid in 3D-printed replicas of coronary arteries with the aim of improving stent design
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Spookfish and Other Deep Sea Sharks
9 Jul 2015Long-nosed spookfish and other chimaeras are among a suite of weird, little known deep sea sharks that sport spiky sex organs on their head, enormous noses, fierce spines and long tails
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