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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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Unwelcome visitors
23 Dec 2021How to deal with unwelcome visitors. Katy Gosset learns about a native fungus that might help in the battle against wilding pines. And two national research programmes combine on an expedition to…
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Using chemistry to uncover the past
Chemical isotope analysis is a powerful technique - Dr. Charlotte King explains to Claire how she uses it to reconstruct past lives of forgotten people from the Otago gold rush.
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Introducing Sci Fi Sci Fact
10 Dec 2021Sci Fi / Sci Fact is a new podcast series in which scientists from New Zealand's MacDiarmid Institute talk to RNZ host Bryan Crump about whether some of science-fiction's most popular concepts could…
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Keeping an eye on river flow
9 Dec 2021Two stories on keeping an eye on river flow - helping fish to migrate back upstream, and development of a national river flow forecasting tool.
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Listening to the hum of the Alpine Fault
2 Dec 2021A team of scientists are installing an array of seismic sensors along the South Island's Alpine Fault. Claire Concannon joins them to find out how and why.
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Restoration - battling predators and planting trees
25 Nov 2021Katy Gosset speaks to a PhD student designing new tech to catch predators and Claire Concannon meets the team who are working to restore a unique landscape on the South Island's West Coast.
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100 years of radio and the spectrum of light
18 Nov 2021On the 100th anniversary of radio in Aotearoa, Claire Concannon learns about the very first broadcast, explores how radio works, and finds out about current research into communicating using light.
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Sniffing out cancer
Claire visits the team at K9 Medical Detection Charitable Trust to learn how their dogs are being trained to detect bowel and prostate cancer.
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Totara treasure hunt
4 Nov 2021Claire Concannon hits the Central Otago hills with Botany PhD student Ben Teele to imagine the landscape as it use to be, and to follow the clues to find leftover pockets of tōtara trees.
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Favourite plants
28 Oct 2021Claire Concannon hears how the the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network's favourite plant competition is shaping up, while Katy Gosset learns about research to improve the quality and growth…
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The details behind the data
21 Oct 2021This week on Our Changing World, Aotearoa Science Agency's Damian Christie speaks to three scientists about the world of data.
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Using bioengineering to enhance healthcare
7 Oct 2021Stories about the potential of bioengineering to transform health care. A new tracheostomy kit design that has halved the time for emergency operations and 3D bioprinting of tissues to help healing.
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Physics on ice
30 Sep 2021Stories of physics research in Antarctica - into, under, and from within the ice. Claire finds out about measuring sea ice thickness and supercooling. Katy Gosset learns how scientists detect…
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Top News stories
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- Ray Chung's 'vile' email condemned across the poltical spectrum
- Uninsured $80,000 digger smashed in Tasman storm
