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The promises and perils of chemistry research
Two stories about the promise and perils of chemistry research. From a team recreating Renaissance beauty recipes in the hopes of rediscovering a 'miracle ingredient', to a researcher investigating…
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Digging into the past of sleeping giant faults
The Nevis Fault is a sleeping giant fault, one that awakens only every 10,000 years or so. This week, a team of geologists use paleoseismic trenching to answer questions about this fault and to figure…
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Meet the winners of the 2021 Prime Minister's Science Prize
2 Jun 2022It's Prime Minister's Science Prize time! We meet some of the people awarded the 2021 prizes for their mahi.
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Biodiversity and the city
26 May 2022Researchers from the University of Waikato are tackling the tricky question of how to restore native biodiversity in our urban areas.
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The red seaweed of Otago Harbour
19 May 2022We join Marine Science PhD student Namrata Chand on her Autumn field work collecting seaweed samples to learn more about this 'underdog of the ocean'.
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Business not as usual for heart health
Pūtahi Manawa / Healthy Hearts for Aotearoa has an ambitious goal – to close the inequity gaps in heart health. Researchers in this Centre of Research Excellence explain the gaps that exist and how…
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Naturally rare and threatened
5 May 2022Claire Concannon meets with some of the people working to protect New Zealand's naturally rare ecosytems and the endangered plants found within them.
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Bonus Episode: 2022 A Boomer Year for Kākāpō
28 Apr 2022Alison Ballance joins the kākāpō recovery team on Pukenui Anchor Island to hear how the 2021/2022 kākāpō breeding season is going.
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Frozen in time
A visit to Scott's Terra Nova hut to learn about the care given to the objects by Antarctic Heritage Trust conservators. This is an edit of the Antarctic Heritage Trust's podcast 'Frozen in Time…
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Researching best care for the smallest of patients
Justin Gregory finds out about a study investigating how pre-term babies are fed during their first few weeks, and whether there is a better way.
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Getting ready for our warmer future
7 Apr 2022Stories about looking our warming world in the eye, and preparing for what is coming next. Collecting data about extreme temperatures in estuaries to help manage shellfish populations. Plus what might…
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The future of cancer treatment
31 Mar 2022At the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research a team of scientists are working on what they believe will be the future of cancer treatment in New Zealand.
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The energy problem
24 Mar 2022Two stories on addressing our energy problem - using AI to maximise locally produced renewable energy and reducing the carbon footprint of ammonia production.
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The first glance
A story of a community taking the lead to investigate their own history. Near the small fishing village of Moeraki, whānau members are doing the work of excavating, sorting, and identifying artifacts…
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When good science takes time
10 Mar 2022This sea week Our Changing World joins Dr. Kim Currie on the Munida transect time-series - a long running investigation of how the chemistry of the oceans off New Zealand is changing.
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Conservation benefits
3 Mar 2022Creating safe spaces for wildlife to thrive means benefit for the local community too. This week, two stories on that theme.
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Finding faults and eavesdropping on earthquakes
24 Feb 2022Alison Ballance catches up with two earthquake researchers. Geologist Carolyn Boulton is a "fault finder", interested in how faults slide. And geophysicist Martha Savage eavesdrops on the earth to…
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Multi-talented macroalgae
17 Feb 2022Claire visits a macroalgae research facility in Tauranga to learn how and why the team there are growing large quantities of seaweed and freshwater macroalgae.
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Honey fingerprints and plant powers
10 Feb 2022Claire learns about honey fingerprinting while Katy Gosset meets a scientist studying the anti-microbial properties of some native plants.
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Tuning in to nature
27 Jan 2022The story of titipounamu, New Zealand's smallest bird, on Otago Peninsula, told by Karthic SS, a wildlife film maker and podcast producer based in Dunedin.
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Summer Science: Voices - To spray or not to spray
20 Jan 2022Summer science continues with a play of a science related episode from RNZ's Voices podcast. In 'To spray or not to spray' we meet Tim Vandervoet as he investigates ways to reduce insecticide use in…
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Summer Science: What's in the water? All about the Pb in our H2
13 Jan 2022Centre for Science Communication student Laura McDonald speaks to Dr. Mike Palin about lead contamination in the environment.
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Summer Science: Black Sheep - Invasive: the story of Stewart Sm
6 Jan 2022Summer science continues with a play of a science related episode from RNZ's Black Sheep podcast. Invasive tells the story of one man who released thousands of invasive fish into New Zealand's rivers…
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Summer Science: There's something in the water
30 Dec 2021Centre for Science Communication student William Bowden speaks to Dr. Mike Joy & Dr. Tim Chambers about the issue of nitrates in New Zealand's waterways.
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