Our Changing World
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Dr Claire Concannon follows scientists into the bush, over rivers, back to their labs and many places in-between to cover the most fascinating research being done in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Analysing ash, and Vanuatu's volcanoes
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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The challenges of making our capital city predator free
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Building New Zealand's RNA capabilities
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Working towards a pest free Purerua-Mataroa peninsula
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Hydrogen detectives
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May 25, 2026 |
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How can Aotearoa eliminate cervical cancer?
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May 18, 2026 |
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Looking to a wild future for kākāpō
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May 11, 2026 |
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A time of change for kākāpō
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May 04, 2026 |
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A taste for science
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Keeping the South Island Psa-V free
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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The unexpected potential of ketamine
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Building an army to stop a stink bug invasion
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Monitoring plastic pollution in Northland, and the elusive bittern
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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The tree keepers
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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How to grow a kiwi
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Iwi-led conservation in the Kaimai Mamuku ranges
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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The thorny issue of the long-spined urchin
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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The Democratisation of Space?
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Science for future fashion
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Going for eradication - Predator free South Westland
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Insect vibes
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Sight in the womb
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Summer science: Methane-busting seaweed
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Summer science: Why we spend
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Summer science: The science of ageing
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Summer science: Keeping it crisp
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Summer science: Dollars for nature
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Tackling feral cats
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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The kākāpō files returns and the year in science
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Restoring Te Awarua o Porirua
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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The best use of your time
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Return of the kākāpō files!
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Restoring freshwater forests
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Mixing oil and water, the greener way
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Resurrecting Wellington's Flowers of the Underworld
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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The rise of the gold clam
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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SAR4SaR - The folding, floating search and rescue device
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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What makes Ruapehu tick, and boom
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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When the fame fades
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Putting AI to use in Aotearoa
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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The Lough Hyne sponge mystery
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Now on Wild Sounds: Voices from Antarctica
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Detecting cow burps from space
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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New Zealand science in space
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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The I-spy carbon mobile
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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The comeback bird
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Powering New Zealand
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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New Zealand’s youth vaping rates
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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The science of non-alcoholic beer
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Turning Taupō green
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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The willows and the wetland
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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The dance of the lanternfish
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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A New Zealand approach to nuclear fusion
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Tauranga's living sea wall
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Protecting ‘Jaws’ – Aotearoa’s rarest freshwater fish
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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New insights from an old vaccine
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Getting ready for H5N1 bird flu
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Wild Sounds: The new podcast feed for nature
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Tracking turtles
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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The Chatham Island tūī translocation
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Wildfire science heats up
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May 28, 2025 |
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Dissecting the world's rarest whale
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May 21, 2025 |
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The missing black petrels of Great Barrier Island
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May 14, 2025 |
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The 2024 Prime Minister’s Science Prize winners
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May 06, 2025 |
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Fiordland's underwater world
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Helping New Zealand’s understated orchids
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Keeping up with the kākahi
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Bonus: RNZ climate correspondent Eloise Gibson
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Voice of the Sea Ice 06 | Where to?
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Voice of the Sea Ice 05 | Changing times
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Voice of the Sea Ice 04 | More life!
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Voice of the Sea Ice 03 | Life!
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Voice of the Sea Ice 02 | Antarctica's heartbeat
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Voice of the Sea Ice 01 | A land of ice and ambition
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Keeping tabs on Fiordland’s sharks and researching our deep-sea realm
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Recruiting the birds to help reforestation, and investigating ADHD and fidgeting
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Trapping to help whio and searching for extreme life
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Your friendly local environment centre
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Trapping smarter not harder
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Summer science: 'Nature's itching to put the bush back'
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Summer science: Bird bandit
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Summer science: The underdogs under the ledge
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Summer science: Plants don't know borders
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Summer science: Mice in Predator Free 2050, and kaimoana for communities
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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New Antarctic methane seeps and what they might mean
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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The bacterial world inside New Zealand's 'living fossil'
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Diving into the world of Antarctic glass sponges
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Pacific Scientific: Samoa's scientists unlocking the power of plants
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Bringing ngutukākā back from the brink
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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A tricky trap for redback spiders
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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The advances in MRI coming out of Gisborne
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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The fight for the forest and the fernbird
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Lead bullets - a health risk for humans and kea
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Can birds adapt their nest building for a warming world?
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Why we are still monitoring the ozone hole
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Looking after our four-legged friends
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Anxiety and the brain-body connection
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The teamwork that solved a life-and-death puzzle
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Some of the light we cannot see
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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The 'science shed' across the ditch
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Genomics and the future of gene technology in Aotearoa
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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What else can we learn from wastewater
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Imagining the next generation of robofish
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Our musical minds
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Bonus: Kākāpō update with Dr Andrew Digby
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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A year of mainland kākāpō
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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A voyage of deep-sea discoveries
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Turning food waste into wealth
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Looking to the future for a low-lying wetland
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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The world through squid eyes
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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The annual snowline survey
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Introducing: Turning The Tide
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Targeting bacteria, and health inequities
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Drones for pest control
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Inside Auckland's lava caves
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The race to save Papua New Guinea's frogs
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May 29, 2024 |
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How much of our extreme weather is due to climate change?
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May 22, 2024 |
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Fungal foray-ing and the search for new antibiotics
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May 15, 2024 |
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Understanding our nearshore island volcanoes - Whakaari and Tūhua
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May 08, 2024 |
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The 2023 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes: Communicating volcano science and sampling soils
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May 01, 2024 |
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Turning the tide – what it takes to take out rats
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Summer 34 – Three decades of albatross research
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Taking on water - marine protection in Aotearoa
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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The mystery of how godwits sleep in flight
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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A tale of two islands – erect-crested penguins
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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The stuff of life - Carbon capture in our ocean ecosystems
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Fish out of water - How to grow fish on land
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Kina-nomics - The kina are taking over, what can we do?
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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The undersea orchestra - Ocean sounds and what they tell us
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Introducing: Voice of Tangaroa
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Watching the weather in the far southern seas
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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New Zealand’s Antipodes Islands – remote, wild, and special
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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The fate of the West Antarctic ice sheet in a warming world
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Pollen, asthma and allergies
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Restoring Wellington’s seaweed forests
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Summer science: AI and medicinal cannabis
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Summer science: Hybrid wildlife and mātauranga Māori
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Summer science: Kākā in Wellington
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Summer science: Seabirds in Auckland
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Summer science: Death rays and radio inventions
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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The giant dinosaurs of Patagonia… and maybe Aotearoa?
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Underwater slips and slides
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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On alert – the National Geohazard Monitoring Centre
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Monitoring the Makarora mohua
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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A new way to help honey bees
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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OCW recommends: The Turning Point
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Plasma rockets in space
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Helping to revitalise Moriori culture
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Forecasting in changing times
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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The potential of plankton
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Life in the fast and slow lanes of braided rivers
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Why are penguins so cool?
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Muscles young and old
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Dotterels: The Southland underdog
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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The recipe for food pairing
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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The Great Ireland vs New Zealand Bird-off: Part 2
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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The great Ireland vs. New Zealand bird-off: Part 1
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Retraining the tinnitus brain
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Exercise on the brain
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Earthquake engineering meets breast cancer screening
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Takahē dreamers
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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The petrel patrol
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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The science of snow
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Inside the nuclear fusion reactor ITER
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Our taiao, our tohu - protecting the Waihi estuary
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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The puzzle of the silent mind
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Neurogenetic conditions in Aotearoa
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Blinded by the light
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Positive emotions in animals
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Digital twins and beating hearts
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Battling weeds with biocontrol
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May 31, 2023 |
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The complexities of soil
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May 24, 2023 |
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Freshwater friends at Zealandia
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May 17, 2023 |
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Head knocks in junior rugby
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May 10, 2023 |
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Special edition: Prime Minister's Science Prizes 2022
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May 01, 2023 |
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Blooming cyclones
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Seeds of hope for seagrass meadows
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Kiwi return to the wilds of Wellington
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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The unwelcome visitors
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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What will happen to alpine plants in a warming world?
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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The Noises Islands: Part 2
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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The Noises Islands: Part 1
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Sleeping on the job
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Bats vs cats
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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When plans change
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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A pair of tyrants
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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The sex life of spiders
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Bonus: Bug of the Year 2023 causing lab tension
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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The secret life of sea sponges
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Green data storage, green walls
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Summer science: Two stories from the ocean
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Summer science: Rabbits and other pests
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Summer science: The hunt for New Zealand's tenth meteorite
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Summer science: Two stories about genetics
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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An eye in the sky to detect methane emissions
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Conservation successes in the Cook Islands
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Planning for Aotearoa's genomic medicine future
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Genome sequencing and the pandemic
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Sunfish secrets
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Sunshine science: the power and peril of the sun’s rays
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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What feathers can tell us about the past lives of seabirds
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Why has this river of Antarctic ice stalled?
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Space sounds and jungle noises The otherworldly song of Weddell
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Deep dives and epic journeys: Return of the emperor penguins
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Emperor penguin secrets
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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The prickly prize of ongaonga
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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A send-off for SOFIA, the flying observatory
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Future forest industry
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Fascinating fungi and pesky pathogens
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Bringing back nature to Nelson
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Plasma jet technology and encouraging Pacific students in science
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Investigating the virosphere
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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For the love of seabirds
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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The Living Laboratories project
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Secrets of Antarctic microbes
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Why the Tongan volcano triggered a worldwide tsunami
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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The battling beetle
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Machine learning for environmental data and needle free injections
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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The resilience of crayfish in Tauranga Harbour
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Helping seabirds return to Karioi
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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The promises and perils of chemistry research
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Digging into the past of sleeping giant faults
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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The 2021 Prime Minister's Science Prizes
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Biodiversity and the city
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May 25, 2022 |
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The red seaweed of Otago Harbour
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May 18, 2022 |
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Business not as usual for heart health
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May 11, 2022 |
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Naturally rare and threatened
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May 04, 2022 |
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Frozen in time
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Researching best care for the smallest of patients
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Getting ready for our warmer future
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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The future of cancer treatment
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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The energy problem
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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The first glance
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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When good science takes time
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Conservation benefits
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Finding faults and eavesdropping on earthquakes
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Multi-talented macroalgae
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Honey fingerprints and plant powers
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Hunting for meteorites
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Tuning in to nature
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Summer Science: Voices - To spray or not to spray
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Summer Science: What's in the water? All about the Pb in our H2
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Summer Science: Black Sheep - Invasive: the story of Stewart Sm
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Summer Science: There's something in the water
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Unwelcome visitors
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Using chemistry to uncover the past
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Introducing Sci Fi Sci Fact
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Keeping an eye on river flow
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Listening to the hum of the Alpine Fault
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Restoration - battling predators and planting trees
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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100 years of radio and the spectrum of light
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Sniffing out cancer
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Totara treasure hunt
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Favourite plants
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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The details behind the data
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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The New Zealand genetic frontotemporal dementia study
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Using bioengineering to enhance healthcare
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Physics on ice
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Brain stories - Parkinsons disease & perceiving masked emotions
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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The kaka's return
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Wading into mangrove research
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Caring for the forest
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Surveying the skies
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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A new way to make vaccines
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Forty feathered needles in a forest haystack
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Mind Games
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Running low on energy
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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The spectrum of research
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Breaking down bird song
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Crafty Mathematics
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Designing a pressure sensor for the brain
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Conservation communities
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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When disease research gets personal
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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The winding paths of science
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Our Changing World for 6 May 2021
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May 06, 2021 |
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Alison Ballance retrospective 6: southern island sanctuary
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May 05, 2021 |
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Alison Ballance retrospective 5: kauri dieback disease
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Our Changing World for 29 April 2021
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Our Changing World for 22 April 2021
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Alison Ballance retrospective 4: ocean acidification
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Our Changing World for 15 April 2021
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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2020 Prime Minister's Science Prize winners
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Our Changing World for 8 April 2021
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Alison Ballance retrospective 3: Voice of the Iceberg
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Alison Ballance retrospective 2: Kaikōura earthquake science
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Our Changing World for 1 April 2021
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Science journalist Alison Ballance hangs up her boots
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Alison Ballance retrospective 1: shags & eagle rays
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Our Changing World for 25 March 2021
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Our Changing World for 18 March 2021
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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More seabirds for Mana Island
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Our Changing World for 11 March 2021
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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In search of what is out there
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Glaciers as barometers of climate change
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Our Changing World for 4 March 2021
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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A new test for IVF embryos
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Collaborating to move freshwater species
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Mapping NZ's underground water
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Our Changing World for 25 February 2021
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Our Changing World for 18 February 2021
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Feb 17, 2021 |