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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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00:10:58

3D printing a bionic arm

Our Changing World ·

2016/07/21

As part of the 2016 International Science Festival in Dunedin, teenager Corey Symon was gifted a 3D-printed bionic arm by Limbitless Solutions.

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00:14:00

Hunted to extinction - the Chatham Island sea lion

Our Changing World ·

2016/07/21

Within 200 years of settling the Chatham Islands, Moriori had hunted the local sea lion to extinction. What lessons can we learn from that?

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00:25:51

Changing times at Our Changing World

Our Changing World ·

2016/07/14

As Our Changing World is about to change to a shorter format, Veronika Meduna looks back at some of her favourite stories about science and the environment.

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00:18:09

Marine science round-up

Our Changing World ·

2016/07/14

A medley of marine science news including the challenges facing mussel bed restoration in the Hauraki Gulf, a multi-level habitat cascade that depends on cockles at its base, the discovery that prickly dogfish eat the eggs of other deep sea sharks, and Antarctic toothfish eggs, discovered for the first time in the Ross Sea in mid-winter.

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00:16:06

Exactly where is sea level? Gravity can tell us

Our Changing World ·

2016/07/14

After two years of measuring gravity from a plane, LINZ has just released a new vertical datum for New Zealand and its coastal seas. This allows the accurate measurement of sea level.

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00:12:59

Taniwha - the human-powered submarine

Our Changing World ·

2016/07/07

Team Taniwha, from the University of Auckland, has designed and built a human-powered submarine, that has borrowed ideas from leather-jacket fish, and currently holds the world record for a non-propellor submarine.

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00:15:53

Rarest sea lions in the world - and the threats they...

Our Changing World ·

2016/07/07

New Zealand sea lions are the rarest sea lion in the world. They face a number of threats, including disease, food limitation and by-catch in commercial fisheries - so which threat is most important?

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00:26:26

Wairau Bar: How it all began

Our Changing World ·

2016/07/07

Veronika Meduna joins Rangitane iwi members and scientists at Wairau Bar, New Zealand's most significant archaeological site, to find out about the place and its people, who were among the first to step ashore in Aotearoa.

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00:18:10

World’s largest telescope to track the dawn of the...

Our Changing World ·

2016/06/30

In the middle of the Australian outback, scientists are building the world's largest radio telescope. Veronika Meduna pays a visit.

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00:12:39

Assisted evolution of corals

Our Changing World ·

2016/06/30

Veronika Meduna explores the controversial idea of assisted evolution, and whether it could help scientists identify coral species that could better adapt to warming ocean temperatures and acidification.

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00:10:52

Koala genome

Our Changing World ·

2016/06/30

Veronika Meduna meets wildlife geneticist Rebecca Johnson to discuss how genomics can help with efforts to protect the koala.

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00:15:52

Native seed bank

Our Changing World ·

2016/06/30

The New Zealand Indigenous Flora Seed Bank is collecting and storing the seeds of native plants as a long-term insurance policy to ensure the survival of species.

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00:15:30

The garden bird survey turns 10

Our Changing World ·

2016/06/23

More than a million birds have been counted in the last nine years of the garden bird survey, and sparrows and silvereyes consistently top the rankings.

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00:10:00

Synchrotron science: from cancer drugs to sheep skin...

Our Changing World ·

2016/06/23

Veronika Meduna meets Kiwi scientist Tom Caradoc-Davies to find out how he uses the Australian synchrotron to work out the 3D structure of proteins to make cancer drugs more specific.

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00:15:46

Biocontrol - fighting bad weeds

Our Changing World ·

2016/06/23

Seed-eating weevils are one of the latest biocontrol agents introduced into New Zealand to control the invasive weed, Darwin's barberry.

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00:13:04

Restoring hearing

Our Changing World ·

2016/06/23

Veronika Meduna visits Cochlear, a medical device company that produces bionic ears, to find out how cochlear implants could help some of the 700,000 New Zealanders who live with a hearing disability.

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00:11:30

DNA transfer between brain cells

Our Changing World ·

2016/06/16

Malaghan Institute scientist Mike Berridge recently discovered a fundamentally new process of mitochondrial DNA transfer between cells. He now investigates whether this is also the case between brain cancer cells.

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00:16:17

Gotta have skin

Our Changing World ·

2016/06/16

A tougher artificial skin, that is quick to grow in the lab, could revolutionise the treament of burn victims and increase their chance of survival.

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00:13:16

Big hopes for tiny wasp mite

Our Changing World ·

2016/06/16

A tiny mite, that could transmit diseases such as viruses, is being investigated as a possible biocontrol agent for introduced social wasps.

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00:12:43

Microbes and moods

Our Changing World ·

2016/06/16

We are more microbe than human, and our microbiome may be affecting our brain, moods and behaviour.

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