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  • Ageing space probe deploys radio transmitter it hasn't used since 1981

    News
    World science
    2 Nov 2024
    NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist's concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. NASA/JPL-Caltech

    Voyager 1 is now using a radio transmitter it hasn't relied on since 1981 to stay in contact with its team on Earth.

    Ageing space probe deploys radio transmitter it hasn't used since 1981
  • Stockfeed from tough bugs 'good for planet and people'

    News
    Country Country Life
    2 Nov 2024
    Christophe Collet, Scion's microbial biotech team leader

    In a Rotorua lab scientists are cooking up plans to create stockfeed out of greenhouse gases captured from geothermal power stations.

    Country Life: Capturing greenhouse gases for farm feed
  • Aus, US slash limits on 'forever chemicals' in water, but NZ stays put

    News
    New Zealand environment
    2 Nov 2024
    No caption

    There are "currently no plans to change" the existing limits, despite warnings the chemicals cause cancer, authorities say.

    Australia, US slash limits on 'forever chemicals' in drinking water, but NZ staying put
  • The inexact science of polling

    Audio 2 Nov 2024
    Dr. Don Levy, Director. Dr. Levy currently serves as the director of the Siena College Research Institute (SCRI). Siena’s polling focuses not only on statewide and local politics but also on economic and social issues important to all New Yorkers. 

Dr. Levy founded and served for two years as the Co-Director of the Institute for Social and Community Research (ISCR) at West Virginia Wesleyan College, and prior to that as Director of Research at the Center for Population Research (CPR) at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Levy holds a Ph.D., in Sociology from the University of Connecticut and a B.A. from Yale University.

    Americans go to the polls on the 5th of November to pick Kamala Harris or Donald Trump as their next president. What are the polls saying? Audio

  • Capturing greenhouse gases for farm feed

    Audio
    rural Bay of Plenty
    1 Nov 2024

    In a Rotorua lab scientists are cooking up plans to create stockfeed out of captured greenhouse gases from geothermal power stations Audio

  • Rory Dean - a rural vet inspired to write

    Audio
    rural Northland
    1 Nov 2024

    Rory Dean, graduated as a vet from Edinburgh University in 2015, and has already filled a book - Adventures of a Country Vet - full of adventures and experiences as a rural vet in his native UK and… Audio

  • Salvage company assessing how to extract fuel from Manawanui

    News
    Pacific Samoa
    1 Nov 2024
    Three containers salvaged by Ark Marine and NZ Navy (19 & 21 October)

    Samoa's Marine Pollution Advisory Committee says equipment is being prepared in Whangārei. Audio

    Salvage company assessing how to extract fuel from Manawanui
  • 'Catastrophised': Fisheries minister plays down coral catch, wants limits reviewed

    News
    Politics Environment
    1 Nov 2024
    A picture supplied by Greenpeace of coral being pulled up by a trawler.

    Shane Jones' comments come after a New Zealand vessel caught more than double the legal amount of coral - triggering an automatic suspension of fishing in the Lord Howe area of the Tasman Sea.

    Fisheries Minister Shane Jones calls for review of coral limits to avoid fishing bans
  • Filep Karma: political prisoner who fought racism in West Papua

    News
    Pacific West Papua
    1 Nov 2024
    Filep Karma while incarcerated at the Abepura prison in Jayapura in December 2014. His supporters released his book on Indonesian racism in West Papua on December 1, 2014. © 2014 Andreas Harsono/Human Rights Watch

    Opinion - Karma was a as a leader who campaigned peacefully but tirelessly on behalf of the rights of Indigenous Papuans, writes Andreas Harsono.

    Filep Karma: political prisoner who fought racism in West Papua
  • Was Travis Scott's concert really loud? Or do you not like his music?

    News
    New Zealand music
    1 Nov 2024
    Travis Scott in Auckland

    Some residents surrounding Eden Park said it was the loudest concert they had heard. Whether that's true is hard to say.

    Was Travis Scott's concert the loudest at Eden Park?
  • From Taieri to NASA: Our unique cloud formation

    Audio
    science weather
    31 Oct 2024
    A satellite image of a small, skinny, oval-shaped cloud above the Taieri region.

    The lenticular cloud formation is named the Taieri Pet because locals took a shining to the special shape. Audio

  • When kids want to quit sport or other activities

    Podcast episode — 30 October 2024

    What is the right way to deal with your kids wanting to quit a sport or an extracurricular activity? Whether it's their first year doing it, or they've been working at it for a decade, it can be a difficult territory for parents and kids to navigate. Sport NZ surveys show kids from 5 to 11 are usually the most active participants in sport, while there is a big dropoff once they reach ages 15 to 17. So, keep dragging unwilling kids to their sports or let them let it go? Kathryn Berkett has her Masters in Educational Psychology and runs her practice Engage which she uses to teach others about using neuroscience in everyday life.

    When kids want to quit sport or other activities
  • NIWA turning to AI to forecast flooding faster

    News
    New Zealand science
    31 Oct 2024
    Mataura River during Southland flooding on 21-22 September 2023. Credit: Guy Dowding/High Country Helicopters

    Staff currently use another form of physical modelling to predict flooding, but it takes 24 hours to develop forecasts.

    NIWA turning to AI to forecast flooding faster
  • How $5 could turn into $5000 for your kids

    News
    Business money
    31 Oct 2024
    A photo of a little boy making stack of coins, counting money at table. Learning financial responsibility and planning savings concept.

    If you want to get your kids off to a good start financially, small contributions to KiwiSaver could make a big difference, the country's largest provider says.

    How $5 could turn into $5000 for your kids
  • The fight for the forest and the fernbird

    News
    New Zealand Environment
    31 Oct 2024
    A flecked brown and grey bird sits among dense brown and green reed stalks.

    A trip to the Tautuku ecology restoration project to learn about ongoing efforts to help the forest and its inhabitants.

    Our Changing World: Conservation in the Catlins – fighting for the forest
  • Our Changing World's Claire Concannon

    Audio
    science environment
    30 Oct 2024
    Claire Concannon smiling

    The host of RNZ podcast Our Changing World joins Emile Donovan to share about her upcoming trip to Antarctica, what the 'solar maximum' is, and the big pot of research funding called Horizon Europe. 

    …
  • How to make robots less creepy

    Audio
    technology science
    30 Oct 2024
    EveR uses a camera to tilt its gaze towards passersby like a possessed bust sculpture.

    Dr Jessica Turner and her team from the University of Waikato is uncovering how robots are edging into spooky territory. Audio

  • Review of Covid response finds Australians unlikely to accept lockdowns again

    News
    World politics
    29 Oct 2024
    Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

    "Trust has also been eroded, and many of the measures taken during Covid-19 are unlikely to be accepted by the population again," reviewers say.

    Review of Covid response finds Australians unlikely to accept lockdowns again
  • Why the coalition's mandate could be fragile

    News
    Politics Comment & Analysis
    29 Oct 2024
    Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and ACT leader David Seymour on 24 November, 2023.

    Analysis - Nearly half of all voters wanted a new government after the election, suggesting this was a "change" election, the authors of a new study write.

    2023 election study: What voters really wanted, and why the coalition’s mandate could be fragile
  • Up close and personal with great white sharks

    Audio
    science animals
    29 Oct 2024
    Philip White has had a passion for the ocean since he was a young boy.

    Philip White shares his experience as an intern with the Blue Wilderness Research Unit in South Africa.  Audio

  • Is it time for us to go back to sex education?

    News
    New Zealand health
    29 Oct 2024
    No caption

    If you learned about sex from unreliable sources as a teenager off in the distant past, experts reckon it might be time to re-boot your learning.

    Should there be sex education for adults?
  • Mahi tokens launched in project to regrow native habitats

    News
    New Zealand Te Ao Māori
    29 Oct 2024
    Te Kautuku beef station on the far East Coast, Tairāwhiti, is being used as a test case for a native habitat regeneration project by startup Toha Network, allowing supporters to purchase Mahi Tokens to fund the environmental work.

    An East Coast beef station has become a test case for a habitat regeneration project offering Mahi Tokens to fund the environmental work.

    Mahi tokens launched in project to regrow native habitats
  • CNMI firefighters exposed to PFAS asked to reach out

    News
    Pacific
    28 Oct 2024
    Fire crew battle a fire during a simulation exercise in the CNMI.

    The Northern Mariana Islands Professional Firefighters Union said recent discoveries raised significant health and environmental concerns over Aqueous Film-Forming Foam. Audio

    CNMI firefighters exposed to PFAS asked to reach out
  • How a Kiwi education shaped astrophysicist's stellar career

    News
    New Zealand education
    28 Oct 2024
    Mazlan Othman - UNOOSA - Women in Space: The Next 50 Years - public panel at the Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria

    The astrophysics field "didn't even exist" in Malaysia in the 1970s: "It was that New Zealand attitude that spurred me on."

    How a Kiwi education shaped stellar career of Malaysia's first astrophysicist
  • Israel hit former nuclear weapons test building in Iran, researchers say

    News
    World conflict
    27 Oct 2024
    Fire erupts between Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv and the city of Modiin following an Iranian missile attack, on October 1, 2024. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said a missile attack under way against Israel on October 1 was in response to the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week as well as that of the Hamas leader. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

    The strikes may have "significantly hampered Iran's ability to mass produce missiles".

    Satellite photos show Israel hit Iran former nuclear weapons test building, missile facilities, researchers say
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