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Our Changing World
Stories about science and nature from out in the field and inside the labs across Aotearoa New Zealand. Winner 2022 New Zealand Radio Awards Best Factual Podcast - Episodic
Thursdays 7:30pm, repeated 1:15am Sundays. One feature plays 3:35pm Wednesdays.
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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… Read more Audio
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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. Read more Audio
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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… Read more Audio
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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. Read more Audio
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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… Read more Audio
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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. Read more Audio
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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… Read more Audio
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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. Read more Video, Audio
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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. Read more Video, Audio
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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. Read more Audio
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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. Read more Audio
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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. Read more Audio
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