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Thar she goes! On the tail of the Kermadec humpback whales
28 Apr 2016Satellite tagging has revealed that humpback whales that breed in Oceania socialise at Raoul Island in the Kermadecs and has shown where in Antarctica they go to feed.
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Marine maternity ward
21 Apr 2016Staff at the Island Bay Marine Education Centre have played midwife to baby carpet sharks that hatched almost a year after a female shark deposited the egg cases in a tank.
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Points, lines and polygons - the art of making maps
21 Apr 2016The 451 topographic maps that cover the length and breadth of New Zealand are a testament to the skills of a team of map makers at LINZ.
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Shy fish, bold fish - insights into the lives of native fish
21 Apr 2016To understand the food webs of ponds and lakes you need to understand the personalities and lives of individual fish
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Report brings climate change home
21 Apr 2016A new report published by the Royal Society of New Zealand highlights six key climate change implications for New Zealand.
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An ode to mangroves
14 Apr 2016Mangroves have a mixed reputation, with some people thinking of them as weeds while others, including writer Kennedy Warne, value them for their ecosystem function and as a natural breakwater.
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Long live the tapeworm - why parasites are a good idea
14 Apr 2016In a novel extension of the 'hygeine hypothesis', biologists argue we should save the parasites of endangered species for the sake of their host's immune system.
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Preventing dementia
Dementia researchers are looking for people with mild cognitive impairment for a longitudinal study to explore how Alzheimer's Disease develops from early stages of memory loss.
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Yellow-eyed penguin numbers hit new low
14 Apr 2016Yellow-eyed penguins have hit their lowest numbers on mainland New Zealand since the early 1990s, and it's the result of a number of issues in the marine environment
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Good for your joints - a smart device to improve how you walk
14 Apr 2016Smart socks and an ankle bracelet that uses small vibration motors might help us to retrain how we walk and stave off joint surgery
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When a river meets the sea
7 Apr 2016NIWA oceanographers are using Deep Cove in Doubtful Sound, where the tailrace from the Manapouri power station flows into the sea, as a natural laboratory to study complex fluid dynamics.
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Search for early signals of dementia with Parkinson's disease
Brain imaging scientist Tracy Melzer is using MRI scans to look for changes in the brain that could predict if a person with Parkinson's Disease will develop dementia.
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Three decades on the tail of Hector’s dolphins
7 Apr 2016After more than 30 years of studying the world's smallest dolphins Liz Slooten and Steve Dawson still enjoy getting out on the water to observe Hector's dolphins, writes Alison Ballance.
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E-textiles and smart fabrics
7 Apr 2016Smart fabrics and e-textiles are a blend of fashion and technology, and can include knitted fabric that has electronic sensors woven into it.
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Dunnocks - and what bird sperm can tell us
31 Mar 2016Bird sperm from native species such as robins, as well as introduced dunnocks from Dunedin, may shed light on problems with male fertility and infertile eggs.
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The art of science advice
31 Mar 2016New Zealand's chief science adviser, Sir Peter Gluckman, and Australia's newly-appointed chief scientist Alan Finkel discuss how their countries could work together for the good of science and…
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Hands-on geology at the marae
31 Mar 2016GNS Science scientists work together with Ngati Kahungunu to run marae-based workshops on geological hazards, natural resources and climate change.
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Tracking the health of kaimoana off Taranaki coast
24 Mar 2016A local hapu, New Plymouth residents and marine scientists have set up a group to monitor the health of kaimoana on the reefs off Waitara, on the Taranaki coast.
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Making sense of the code of life
24 Mar 2016BBC broadcaster Adam Rutherford discusses how genomics is changing how we think about medicine, agriculture, conservation and even our relationship to our nearest evolutionary cousins, the…
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Restoring nature at Nelson's Brook Waimarama Sanctuary
24 Mar 2016A 14.5 kilometre-long pest proof fence will soon be keeping nature safe from invasive animals, in a nearly 700-hectare forest sanctuary on the outskirts of Nelson
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New Zealand leads world in island conservation
22 Mar 2016A new study shows that getting rid of invasive mammals from islands has an enormous positive benefit for rare native species.
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Southern right whales back from brink of extinction
16 Mar 2016Whaling in the 1800s nearly caused the extinction of southern right whales around New Zealand, and the population is slowly recovering from a low of just 110-or-so animals in the 1920s.
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Hairy elephants and transgenic aphids
17 Mar 2016University of Otago geneticists Peter Dearden and Neil Gemmell continue their discussion of the gene editing tool CRISPR and its use in genomics, conservation and de-extinction.
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New Zealand's prehistoric polar forests
17 Mar 2016A team of Australian and New Zealand fossil hunters on a National Geographic expedition spent weeks scouring sites in Marlborough and on the Chatham Islands for remnants of prehistoric polar forests.
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