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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
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Introducing Sci Fi Sci Fact
5:00 AM.Sci 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
5:00 AM.Two 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
5:00 AM.A 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
5:00 AM.Katy 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
5:00 AM.On 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
5:00 AM.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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Totara treasure hunt
5:00 AM.Claire Concannon hits the Central Otago hills with Botany PhD student Ben Teele to imagine the landscape as it use to be, and to follow the clues to find leftover pockets of tōtara trees. Read more Audio
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Favourite plants
5:00 AM.Claire Concannon hears how the the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network's favourite plant competition is shaping up, while Katy Gosset learns about research to improve the quality and growth… Read more Audio
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The details behind the data
5:00 AM.This week on Our Changing World, Aotearoa Science Agency's Damian Christie speaks to three scientists about the world of data. Read more Video, Audio
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The New Zealand genetic frontotemporal dementia study
5:00 AM.Claire Concannon hears from Dr. Brigid Ryan of the University of Auckland about the New Zealand genetic frontotemporal dementia study and speaks to some of the family members involved in this unique… Read more Audio
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Using bioengineering to enhance healthcare
5:00 AM.Stories about the potential of bioengineering to transform health care. A new tracheostomy kit design that has halved the time for emergency operations and 3D bioprinting of tissues to help healing. Read more Video, Audio
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Physics on ice
5:00 AM.Stories of physics research in Antarctica - into, under, and from within the ice. Claire finds out about measuring sea ice thickness and supercooling. Katy Gosset learns how scientists detect… Read more Audio
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Brain stories - Parkinsons disease & perceiving masked emotions
5:00 AM.Claire Concannon learns about experiments aimed at slowing Parkinson's Disease progression. Sonia Yee explores research into our perception of emotions in a mask-filled world. Read more Audio
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The kaka's return
5:00 AM.The return of South Island kākā to the the Ōtepoti Dunedin area has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride. Claire Concannon hears about the tragedies and the triumphs, and the plans for what comes next.
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Wading into mangrove research
5:00 AM.Native mangroves in Aotearoa are expanding, putting them in conflict with some local communities & councils. A wade into the research about the value of mangroves & how they are managed. Read more Audio
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Caring for the forest
5:00 AM.Katy Gosset finds out how researchers investigate the plant penetration powers of myrtle rust. Claire Concannon speaks with the caretaker of a tropical forest and hundreds of butterflies. Read more Audio
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Surveying the skies
5:00 AM.Two stories of looking to the skies. Claire Concannon joins a hunt for planets outside of our solar system. Katy Gosset reveals the results of the annual New Zealand Garden Birds Survey. Read more Audio
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A new way to make vaccines
5:00 AM.This week, how information flows in the cell from DNA to proteins, and how scientists have tapped into this to enable a new way to make vaccines using messenger RNA. Read more Audio
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Forty feathered needles in a forest haystack
5:00 AM.How do you find a tiny robin in a whole lot of forest? Researchers have been tracking the movements of forty North Island robins, or toutouwai, that have been reintroduced to a large reserve area near… Read more Audio
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Mind Games
5:00 AM.How do you get in the zone to achieve your very best in an activity? And does a cheering crowd help? This week, two stories about the psychology of performance - the advantages of being at home, and… Read more Audio
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Running low on energy
5:00 AM.Researchers from the University of Waikato talk about Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) – a condition in which athletes don't take in the right amount of calories to do the exercise they are… Read more Audio