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Our Changing World

Dr Claire Concannon follows scientists into the bush, over rivers, back to their labs and many places in-between to cover the most fascinating research being done in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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00:12:12

Crushing mussels, crunching data

Our Changing World ·

2015/11/12

They call it the 'mussel crusher', a machine developed by NIWA to test the strength of New Zealand mussel shells and help the local aquaculture industry

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00:13:11

'Smart' glove

Our Changing World ·

2015/11/12

The prototype of a haptic feedback glove is being used to control a flight simulator but could have future use in physiotherapy

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00:13:01

Smart birds net researcher PM's Emerging Scientist Prize

Our Changing World ·

2015/11/12

Research into intelligence in New Caledonian crows has won Alex Taylor the 2015 Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize

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00:25:34

Top science prize for myth-busting bone research team

Our Changing World ·

2015/11/12

The 2015 Prime Minister's Science Prize goes to osteoporosis researchers Ian Reid, Mark Bolland and Andrew Grey. Ian Reid also won the Rutherford Medal and Liley Medal

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00:12:28

Mars Mission: a mental journey

Our Changing World ·

2015/11/05

As NASA considers a mission to Mars, it is investigating what happens to an astronaut's brain during long-duration space travel.

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00:15:22

A journey through the Anthropocene

Our Changing World ·

2015/11/05

Gaia Vince is the author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, which won the 2015 Winton Science Book Prize.

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00:12:41

Celebrating great ideas for Nature

Our Changing World ·

2015/11/05

The WWF Conservation Innovations awards recognise the best ideas that help conservation projects to succeed.

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00:14:42

Healthy streams - healthy harbour

Our Changing World ·

2015/11/05

Whaingaroa Harbour Care have planted more than 1.4 million native plants along streams around Raglan,and the harbour is much cleaner as a result

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00:11:50

Bill Ballantine: New Zealand's pioneer of marine...

Our Changing World ·

2015/11/05

A tribute to Bill Ballantine, New Zealand's tireless campaigner for the protection of our oceans, who died this week at the age of 78.

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00:16:33

Kokopu condos and tuna townhouse

Our Changing World ·

2015/10/29

A housing project for native fish in suburban streams is hoping to provide safe refuges for giant kokopu and long-finned eels

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00:10:05

Eat better, think better - diet and the brain

Our Changing World ·

2015/10/29

Psychologists and nutritionists at the University of Otago are studying how diet can have a positive impact on heart and brain health

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00:15:37

Bending light in search for alien planets

Our Changing World ·

2015/10/29

Light has helped astronomers to discover many of the almost 2000 planets that orbit around stars outside our own solar system, thanks to Einstein.

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00:17:27

Saving the rarest of the rare - Endangered Species...

Our Changing World ·

2015/10/29

The newly launched Endangered Species Foundation has identified some key threatened species that need urgent conservation work

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00:17:09

Hair of the kuri or Maori dog

Our Changing World ·

2015/10/22

Ecologist Cilla Wehi hopes that the hair and bones of kuri, or now extinct Maori dog, might hold clues to what they ate

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00:16:20

On the cusp of a solar revolution

Our Changing World ·

2015/10/22

Next generation printable and flexible solar cells, made with new materials, are part of a clean-energy revolution

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00:19:14

Wilding pines go up in flames in name of science

Our Changing World ·

2015/10/22

Scientists set fire to blocks of wilding pines to study whether chemicals used to control the weedy trees change the fire hazard.

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00:17:18

Global census of methane-producing microbes

Our Changing World ·

2015/10/15

A team of AgResearch scientists had analysed the rumen microbiome in different animals across the world and found similar methane-producing micro-organisms.

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00:13:04

Ultra-fast lasers

Our Changing World ·

2015/10/15

Ultra-fast lasers - or more properly ultra short-pulsed lasers - are very accurate, which makes them useful in industry and research

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00:14:34

Subtidal currents in Cook Strait

Our Changing World ·

2015/10/15

Cook Strait is known for its strong tidal currents, but NIWA oceanographers have completed comprehensive measurements of subtidal residual currents.

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00:13:41

Kaika Energy - from food waste to fertiliser and biogas

Our Changing World ·

2015/10/15

A group of Year 13 students from Kaikorai Valley College in Dunedin have created a biotechnology company and installed a biodigestor at school

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