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Our Changing World for Thursday 28 January 2016

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  • The 'pee' in pest control - developing super lures

    science environment
    Ship rat eating a kereru egg

    9:34 PM.A team of biologists and chemists are developing super lures, based on pheromones found in animal urine, that they hope will be more attractive and longer lasting than food lures Read more Video, Audio

  • Alien invasions in Antarctica

    science environment
    These Adelie penguins will travel north during winter, but Antarctica teems with tiny wildlife - midges, springtails, water bears and wheel animals - that stay put all year round and whose life cycles are finely tuned to the extreme environment.

    9:20 PM.Pete Convey, a polar ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey, discusses how growing numbers of tourists and a changing climate increase the risk of species invasions. Read more Audio

  • 'Physics is cool' - nanocamper

    science
    The 2016 nanocampers experimented with light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, to learn about the chemistry and nanotechnology involved in producing different colours of light.

    9:06 PM.Year 12 and 13 students join scientists at the MacDiarmid Institute for a week-long nanocamp of experimentation and learning. Read more Video, Audio

  • Previous Episode: Thursday, 21 January 2016
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 4 February 2016
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