Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
27 May 2012 - 1:13 pm NZ time
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- Thursday, 24 May 2012
Simulating a volcanic eruption, urban kereru in Wellington, slam testing composites, and how New Zealand is the first country to catalogue its living and fossil biodiversity.
- Thursday, 17 May 2012
Teaching science in primary schools, creating and testing composites, science poetry, and a twisted flow wind tunnel
- Thursday, 10 May 2012
Tagging great white sharks, predicted sea-level rise, and art-science exhibition Dark Sky.
- Thursday, 3 May 2012
Ulva or sea lettuce and harbour ecology, part 4 of the Global Body series, and the plant virus hunter.
- Thursday, 26 April 2012
A computer game to treat young people suffering depression, the brain and fertility, emerging scientists consider their futures in New Zealand, and the 2012 Auckland Bioblitz and slime moulds
- Thursday, 19 April 2012
Whio or blue duck conservation in the Tongariro Forest, the health of immigrants in Los Angeles, and a full-colour x-ray scanner
- Thursday, 12 April 2012
Cold adaptation in stick insects, Fiordland Islands Restoration Programme.
- Thursday, 5 April 2012
Scanning brain activity with functional MRI; part two of the BBC Discovery documentary series Global Body; and the Southland community nursery.
- Thursday, 29 March 2012
The late Sir Paul Callaghan talks about his early life and science influences, apple bioactives, monitoring water quality in the Waituna catchment, and science reports from the Our Far South expedition.
- Thursday, 22 March 2012
Flipping lakes; part 1 of BBC Discovery series on how modern life affects people's health; new approaches to studying happiness and well-being.
- Thursday, 15 March 2012
Ecology of Waituna Lagoon, research into possible treatments for MS multiple sclerosis, and finding 16-19 million year old fossils at St Bathans
- Thursday, 8 March 2012
Parasites in a coastal marine ecosystem, re-greening the rubble of Christchurch, clouds and their role in climate change, and a roof garden of Otago native plants
- Thursday, 1 March 2012
Giant fossil penguins, fast-fibre digital communication system KAREN, GPS tracking of juvenile royal albatrosses, urban ecology in Dunedin.
- Thursday, 23 February 2012
Canterbury earthquake anniversary, medicinal properties of manuka honey, deep-sea snailfish and smart pigeons
- Thursday, 16 February 2012
Super-giant amphipods from the Kermadec trench; horopito's hot and red leaves; more on rescuing stranded whales; and what ancient forests tell us about Auckland's volcanic history.
- Thursday, 9 February 2012
Giraffe weevils; trainingfor whale rescuers; and the effect of a pine-bark extract on cognitive function after brain trauma.
- Thursday, 2 February 2012
The future of New Zealand's iconic glaciers, University of Otago's Iso-Trace Lab, tree-top monitoring of rats, and moss that smells like dung.
- Thursday, 26 January 2012
Geology of Nelson's boulder bank, population dynamics of little blue penguins on the West Coast, translocation of fluttering shearwaters to Matiu-Somes Island, and Scott's last journey.
- Thursday, 19 January 2012
Collecting fish in Kermadec rockpools, methanogens in cow's rumens, and sleep apnoea.
- Thursday, 12 January 2012
Half a century for NIWA station at Lauder, insects on Raoul Island, Tell us a Science Story, self-setting possum traps.
- Thursday, 5 January 2012
Whakatane kiwi project, ageing wine with electrical fields, volcanic hazard monitoring, and space physics and global lightning.
- Thursday, 29 December 2011
Extremophile microbes on the slopes of Mt Erebus; Martin Jetpack; seismic survey of lower North Island
- Thursday, 22 December 2011
Prime Minister's Science Prizes for 2011, mammoth haemoglobin, Michael Corballis on what makes us human, and knitting the periodic table of elements.
- Thursday, 15 December 2011
The biography of Lance Richdale, peripatus and urban conservation, and the Simulation Centre for Patient Safety.
- Thursday, 8 December 2011
Metameterials and sound insulation, deceptive orchids, origins of sociality in primates, and bioluminescence and superbugs
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