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Our Changing World for 16 November 2017
16 Nov 2017Protecting nature on private land with the QEII Trust, and creating the 1769 Garden to mark the first encounter between Maori and Captain Cook.
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The 1769 Garden
16 Nov 2017The 1769 Garden commemorates the first encounter between Maori and the crew of the Endeavour, under the command of Captain James Cook, at Gisborne in October 1769.
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Protecting nature on private land
16 Nov 2017The Queen Elizabeth II National Trust is celebrating 40 years of helping landowners protect 4,400 pieces of land with high conservation values
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Mapping the gut
A flexible tool to measure electrical signals in our gut could detect serious medical conditions.
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Our Changing World for 9 November 2017
9 Nov 2017New discoveries from New Zealand's ancient past, and mapping the gut's electrical signals.
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The New Zealand fossil revolution
9 Nov 2017In the last few years there's been a revolution in our understanding of New Zealand's ancient animals - there were once crocodiles as well as small land mammals.
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Our Changing World for 2 November 2017
2 Nov 2017Engineer looks at the physics of blood splatter, chemist wins 2017 Hill Tinsley Award for new drugs made with metals, and freshwater biologist wins 2017 Marsden Medal.
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Using noble metals to kill cancer
The winner of the 2017 Hill Tinsley Medal is developing anti-cancer drugs based on noble metals such as platinum and iridium.
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Big award for studying small lake critters
2 Nov 2017The 2017 Marsden Medal is awarded to Carolyn Burns for her internationally renowned research into New Zealand's deep southern lakes.
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The physics of blood spatter
Engineer Mark Jermy has been helping forensics investigators understand the science behind blood spatter evidence at crime scenes.
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Understanding our immune system
Bruce Beutler received the 2011 Nobel Prize for discoveries about the innate immune system in mammals.
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It's a microbial world
Science writer Ed Yong investigates the complex world of microbes in his book "I Contain Multitudes."
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Inherited heart disease: you're not doomed by your DNA
Anna Pilbrow says that a complex interaction of genetic factors underpin our risk of getting heart disease - and leading a healhy lifestyle lowers the risk.
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Touchstone - a community project for Lake Wanaka
19 Oct 2017Lake swimmers, the local primary school and neighbouring farmers have joined together to look after water quality in Lake Wanaka.
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Drug discoverer recognised with a top science honour
The 2017 MacDiarmid Medal has been awarded to chemist Peter Tyler, for his work designing and creating new drugs to treat diseases such as cancer.
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Top science award goes to a 'supervolcanologist'
12 Oct 2017The 2017 Rutherford Prize has been awarded to Victoria University of Wellington geologist Colin Wilson for his work on supervolcanoes such as Taupo.
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ECLIPSE - getting ready for a supervolcano eruption
12 Oct 2017An $8-million research programme to better understand the Taupo supervolcano and prepare the community for an eruption has just begun.
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Designing nanoparticles to move medication around your body
Arlene McDowell is designing nanoparticles that will hold medication and deliver it exactly to its intended destination in the body.
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Moa footprints - a rocky tale
5 Oct 2017After twenty years of puzzling, geologist Bruce Hayward reckons he has identified some mysterious patterns in a west Auckland roadside cutting as moa footprints.
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Celebrating the night sky on Great Barrier Island
28 Sep 2017Great Barrier Island has become the world's third International Dark Sky Sanctuary, in recognition of its outstanding star-filled night skies.
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SOFIA - a flying telescope with a unique view of space
21 Sep 2017NASA's SOFIA observatory is a 2.5m telescope mounted in the back of a plane. It observes the birth and death of stars and the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
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Bacteria versus virus at Queenstown Research Week
14 Sep 2017The arms race between the immune systems of bacteria and the viruses - bacteriophages - that attack them, was a feature of this year's Queenstown Research Week.
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Bringing Kirk's tree daisy back to Wellington
7 Sep 2017Kohurangi, or Kirk's tree daisy, is rare in the Wellington region, but botanists are taking on the challenge of bringing it back to the city.
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The Science Of... Vitamin C
What is vitamin C and why do we need it? Which foods have the most vitamin C? Should we pop pills when we think we're getting a cold, or are we just producing expensive urine? And can vit C really…
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