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Surveying the skies
26 Aug 2021Two stories of looking to the skies. Claire Concannon joins a hunt for planets outside of our solar system. Katy Gosset reveals the results of the annual New Zealand Garden Birds Survey.
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A new way to make vaccines
This week, how information flows in the cell from DNA to proteins, and how scientists have tapped into this to enable a new way to make vaccines using messenger RNA.
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Forty feathered needles in a forest haystack
12 Aug 2021How do you find a tiny robin in a whole lot of forest? Researchers have been tracking the movements of forty North Island robins, or toutouwai, that have been reintroduced to a large reserve area near…
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Mind Games
How do you get in the zone to achieve your very best in an activity? And does a cheering crowd help? This week, two stories about the psychology of performance - the advantages of being at home, and…
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Running low on energy
Researchers from the University of Waikato talk about Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) – a condition in which athletes don't take in the right amount of calories to do the exercise they are…
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The spectrum of research
22 Jul 2021Scientific research can be thought as on a spectrum from blue sky to applied - this week, two stories that span this. Claire Concannon learns about a blue-sky research project on bacterial evolution…
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Breaking down bird song
15 Jul 2021On this week's Our Changing World – how songbirds learn their song, and how researchers in the Southern Hemisphere are trying to correct a long-standing male bias in the songbird world.
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Crafty Mathematics
8 Jul 2021Mathematical equations can help us get new perspectives, but sometimes can be difficult to understand. This week, one story about how maths has helped the understanding of a enigmatic quirk of heart…
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Designing a pressure sensor for the brain
1 Jul 2021Researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute are working on what they hope will be the first New Zealand designed Class 3 medical device - a pressure sensor for the brain, to help people with…
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Conservation communities
24 Jun 2021Two stories of Aotearoa New Zealand conservation communities who are caring for the flora and fauna in their backyards. Claire learns about the Catlins Bats on the Map project while Katy learns about…
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When disease research gets personal
17 Jun 2021Claire Concannon meets a group of researchers who are determined to do the best science they can, to try to help the people they love.
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The winding paths of science
10 Jun 2021Two stories about science pathways - Katy Gosset heads to the University of Canterbury STEM careers fair to find out what the future might be for science students, while Claire Concannon learns about…
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3: Battle / Predator Free 2050 & Māori
24 May 2021Community-led projects are leading the charge to halt biodiversity decline, while researchers make break-throughs in their quest to remove predators and protect borders from reinvasion.
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4: Hope / What’s in It for Us?
31 May 2021In the series finale, Hope, we get a glimpse of what a predator-free Aotearoa could look like, and look at the breakthrough technologies and innovations taking us towards that goal.
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2: Defiance / Remove and Protect
17 May 2021New Zealander’s have drawn a line in the sand, announcing they will rid the nation of rats, stoats and possums by 2050, but what will it take to get there?
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1: Loss / Dealing with Loss
10 May 2021Loss looks at the devastating effect introduced mammals have had on New Zealand's unique wildlife.
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Alison Ballance retrospective 5: kauri dieback disease
29 Apr 2021Alison Ballance revisits a 2013 feature on kauri dieback disease and talks to Nick Waipara to find out how the northern kauri forests are coping with the disease in 2021.
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Alison Ballance retrospective 4: ocean acidification
22 Apr 2021Alison Ballance's foray into the vaults finds a feature on ocean acidification, The Acid Test and adds a 2021 update.
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2020 Prime Minister's Science Prize winners
15 Apr 2021There are some familiar names as well as some new faces among the winners of the 2020 Prime Minister's Science Prizes.
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Alison Ballance retrospective 3: Voice of the Iceberg
8 Apr 2021Alison Ballance digs into Our Changing World's Antarctic treasure chest and finds part 2 of Voice of the Iceberg.
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Alison Ballance retrospective 2: Kaikōura earthquake science
1 Apr 2021Alsion Ballance revisits a story looking at the complexity of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake.
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Alison Ballance's world is changing
26 Mar 2021With more than a thousand conservation stories under her waterproof parka, science journalist Alison Ballance is retiring from RNZ's Our Changing World programme.
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Alison Ballance retrospective 1: shags & eagle rays
25 Mar 2021Alison Ballance looks back at the 1,000+ stories she has made, and revisits stone-eating spotted shags and urban eagle rays
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More seabirds for Mana Island
18 Mar 2021The story of a seabird translocation to Mana Island, involving fluffy white-faced storm petrel chicks, artificial burrows and sardine smoothies.
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