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Recent items from Our Changing World
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Meet the winners of the 2021 Prime Minister's Science Prize
5:00 AM.It's Prime Minister's Science Prize time! We meet some of the people awarded the 2021 prizes for their mahi. Read more Audio
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Biodiversity and the city
5:00 AM.Researchers from the University of Waikato are tackling the tricky question of how to restore native biodiversity in our urban areas. Read more Audio
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The red seaweed of Otago Harbour
5:00 AM.We join Marine Science PhD student Namrata Chand on her Autumn field work collecting seaweed samples to learn more about this 'underdog of the ocean'. Read more Audio
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Business not as usual for heart health
5:00 AM.Pūtahi Manawa / Healthy Hearts for Aotearoa has an ambitious goal – to close the inequity gaps in heart health. Researchers in this Centre of Research Excellence explain the gaps that exist and how… Read more Audio
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Naturally rare and threatened
5:00 AM.Claire Concannon meets with some of the people working to protect New Zealand's naturally rare ecosytems and the endangered plants found within them. Read more Audio
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Bonus Episode: 2022 A Boomer Year for Kākāpō
5:00 AM.Alison Ballance joins the kākāpō recovery team on Pukenui Anchor Island to hear how the 2021/2022 kākāpō breeding season is going. Read more Audio
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Frozen in time
5:00 AM.A visit to Scott's Terra Nova hut to learn about the care given to the objects by Antarctic Heritage Trust conservators. This is an edit of the Antarctic Heritage Trust's podcast 'Frozen in Time… Read more Audio
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Researching best care for the smallest of patients
5:00 AM.Justin Gregory finds out about a study investigating how pre-term babies are fed during their first few weeks, and whether there is a better way. Read more Audio
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Getting ready for our warmer future
5:00 AM.Stories about looking our warming world in the eye, and preparing for what is coming next. Collecting data about extreme temperatures in estuaries to help manage shellfish populations. Plus what might… Read more Audio
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The future of cancer treatment
5:00 AM.At the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research a team of scientists are working on what they believe will be the future of cancer treatment in New Zealand. Read more Audio
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The energy problem
5:00 AM.Two stories on addressing our energy problem - using AI to maximise locally produced renewable energy and reducing the carbon footprint of ammonia production. Read more Audio
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The first glance
5:00 AM.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… Read more Audio
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When good science takes time
5:00 AM.This 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. Read more Audio
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Conservation benefits
5:00 AM.Creating safe spaces for wildlife to thrive means benefit for the local community too. This week, two stories on that theme. Read more Audio
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Finding faults and eavesdropping on earthquakes
5:00 AM.Alison 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… Read more Audio
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Multi-talented macroalgae
5:00 AM.Claire visits a macroalgae research facility in Tauranga to learn how and why the team there are growing large quantities of seaweed and freshwater macroalgae. Read more Audio
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Honey fingerprints and plant powers
5:00 AM.Claire learns about honey fingerprinting while Katy Gosset meets a scientist studying the anti-microbial properties of some native plants. Read more Audio
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Hunting for meteorites
5:00 AM.Claire Concannon joins a meteorite hunt on the South Island's West Coast and learns what these rocks from space can tell us about the early formation of our solar system. Read more Audio
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Tuning in to nature
5:00 AM.The 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. Read more Audio
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Summer Science: Voices - To spray or not to spray
5:00 AM.Summer 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
5:00 AM.Centre 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
5:00 AM.Summer 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
5:00 AM.Centre 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
5:00 AM.How 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
5:00 AM.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