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Our Changing World headlines with summaries.
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Preparing for the next big quake
10 Dec 2020Information from past earthquakes can be used to prepare a more resilient society that will be better able to cope with future shakes.
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What it takes to live a good life
10 Dec 2020When it comes to having a 'good life', there are several key elements - strong intimate relationships and time to relax.
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Studying the causes of cancer
Cancer epidemiologist Brian Cox, from the University of Otago, talks about studying the causes of cancer and new research on diet and bowel cancer.
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All at sea - the surprising reach of river waters
3 Dec 2020Two self-driving underwater robots are making surprising discoveries about where river water ends up at sea, far from land.
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Ozone holes & UV radiation
26 Nov 2020NIWA's Richard Querel talks about the ozone hole, including this year's large one, and Ben Liley explains why NZ has such high UV levels.
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Pua o te Rēinga - return of the Flower of the Underworld
19 Nov 2020Iwi representatives & conservationists journey to Zealandia sanctuary to plant seeds of the mysterious parasitic flowering plant Dactylanthus or flower of the underworld.
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Award for using DNA to better understand plants & animals
12 Nov 2020Geneticist Neil Gemmell has won the 2020 Hutton Medal for using DNA & new genomic technologies to better understant plants & animals.
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Wahakura - a woven cradle to save babies' lives
The 2020 Tahunui-A-Rangi Award goes to David Tipene Leach for the wahakura, a woven bassinet to address the problem of sudden unexpected death in infancy.
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Focus on political economy & Te Ao Māori a winning combination
5 Nov 2020Maria Bargh's work on political economies and the environment is focused on Māori communities and has won her the 2020 Te Puāwaitanga Award.
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Colourful plants help young researcher win award
5 Nov 2020Unravelling how genes control colour in petunias has won Nick Albert the 2020 Hamilton Award and could help breed more nutritious fruit.
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Researchers win big at awards
Researchers from the sciences and the humanities have had their achievements recognised with awards from the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
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'Academic superstar' wins top research award
NZ's top research award, the Rutherford Medal, has gone to Brian Boyd, whose work spans Shakespeare to Nabokov to Popper, & weaves arts and sciences together.
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Climate change - striking a balance
A group of Dunedin students talk about what they learned making an Otago Museum exhibition about climate change inequality.
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Putting deep sea corals to the test
29 Oct 2020Deep sea corals are being put to the test at NIWA to find out how they cope with sediment.
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Grass and the science of urban CO2
22 Oct 2020Jocelyn Turnbull from GNS Science is measuring how much CO2 we're producing in NZ towns - and she's doing it by cutting the grass.
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Carbon Watch & 50 years of CO2 measurements in NZ
15 Oct 2020Dave Lowe on measuring CO2 in New Zealand for 50 years, and how Carbon Watch NZ is a bird's eye view on our carbon balance.
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Our Changing World for 8 October 2020
A replay of a story from May 2018: a citizens' jury on euthanasia.
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NZ and the Covid-19 vaccine
When is the Covid-19 vaccine coming? Will it work? William Ray talks to NZ experts charting our path towards immunity.
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Cutting the grass? Cut it out!
24 Sep 2020Lawn owner William Ray looks at the ecological benefits of not mowing and letting your grass grow longer.
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Genetic recipe book for natural products from fungi
17 Sep 2020Emily Parker and her team at Victoria University of Wellington are identifying the genes that allow fungi to create natural medicinal compounds.
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What bird is that?
10 Sep 2020An ecologist and a mathematician discover that teaching a computer to recognise bird calls from acoustic recorders is an interesting challenge.
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A decade of earthquakes
3 Sep 2020Ten years after the Darfield earthquake, three seismologists from GeoNet reflect on a decade of big earthquakes and what we've learnt from them.
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Time travelling with a climate scientist
27 Aug 2020Dead corals cast up the shore of Aitutaki, in the Cook Islands, provide a window into the Pacific Ocean's marine climate hundreds of years ago.
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Green chemistry - better, safer, more sustainable
20 Aug 2020From safer solvents to make better batteries, to catalysts that can clean up wastewater, green chemists are developing better ways of making stuff.
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