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Our Changing World for Thursday 23 June 2016

  • The garden bird survey turns 10

    9:46 PM.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. Read more Audio

  • Synchrotron science: from cancer drugs to sheep skin leather

    9:34 PM.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. Read more Audio

  • Biocontrol - fighting bad weeds

    science environment

    9:20 PM.Seed-eating weevils are one of the latest biocontrol agents introduced into New Zealand to control the invasive weed, Darwin's barberry. Read more Audio

  • Restoring hearing

    9:06 PM.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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