Navigation for Our Changing World

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Thursday, 29 August 2024

A man holds up a Petri dish with two splotches growing in it, obscuring his face.

Genomics and the future of gene technology in Aotearoa

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Thursday, 22 August 2024

Two women in white lab coats and lab goggles stand in a lab next to a large machine with about a dozen glass bottles on top of it. The glass bottles are half-filled with clear liquid and have tubes running from them into the machine.

What else can we learn from wastewater?

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Thursday, 15 August 2024

A torpedo shaped black machine sits on a silver metal stand, with sharp white teeth drawn on, and fin like things sticking out from the top and bottom.

Imagining the next generation of robofish

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Thursday, 8 August 2024

A man sitting at a desk looking at two computer monitors. One is showing brightly coloured waveforms. There is a microphone on the desk.

Our musical minds

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Thursday, 1 August 2024

A close in shot of a kākāpō standing on a branch.

Bonus: Kākāpō update with Dr Andrew Digby

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Thursday, 25 July 2024

A collage of 20 weird deep-sea animals arranged in a grid against a black background, including shrimp-like creatures, octopuses and squids, an eel-esque fish, a starfish, and other weird goopy and spiky creatures.

A voyage of deep-sea discoveries

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Thursday, 18 July 2024

A man standing next to a kitchen sink with a fridge in the background. The man is smiling and holds a plastic bag of a coarse off-white substance and has a circular piece of orange "skin" on his outstretched hand.

Turning food waste into wealth

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Thursday, 11 July 2024

A man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a bright green colllared t-shirt stands on the edge of a wetland pool framed by long grass and vegetation. He is side on, holding a long pole and using an electronic device with a wire extending down towards the water. It's a sunny day and the water is still.

Looking to the future for a low-lying wetland

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Thursday, 4 July 2024

A speckled pink-orange squid in a dark tank.

The world through squid eyes

Full episode

Thursday, 27 June 2024

An aerial photo of a glacier snaking between tall snow-capped mountains, strewn with patches of low cloud beneath a blue sky.

The annual snowline survey

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Tuesday, 25 June 2024

Underwater scene with fish swimming. Text reads "Turning The Tide: The state of our seas" Underneath is a laurel with the text “NZ web festival official selection 2024”

Introducing: Turning The Tide

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Thursday, 20 June 2024

A man in a white lab coat and rubber gloves holds a pipette up to an eppendorf tube in a lab.

Targeting bacteria, and health inequities

Full episode

Thursday, 13 June 2024

A black and white aerial image taken with a thermal camera mounted on a drone, showing the greyscale scrubby landscape and a bright white outline of a wallaby.

Drones for pest control

Full episode

Thursday, 6 June 2024

A wide shot of a man standing in a cave at the bottom of stairs that head up towards a light and leafy backyard.

Inside Auckland's lava caves

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Thursday, 30 May 2024

Ryan and his colleague, from Papua New Guinea, stand in front of a tank filled with greenery. They are both wearing khaki shirts.

The race to save Papua New Guinea's frogs

Full episode

Thursday, 23 May 2024

Satellite imagery of Cyclone Gabrielle over Aotearoa New Zealand

How much of our extreme weather is due to climate change?

Full episode

Thursday, 16 May 2024

Icicle fungus

Fungal foray-ing and the search for new antibiotics

Full episode

Thursday, 2 May 2024

A collage of four headshots of smiling people (two men, one woman and one teenage girl) and a wide shot of eight people clustered together.

The 2023 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes: Communicating volcano science and sampling soils

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Thursday, 25 April 2024

An image of an island in the middle of the ocean behind a stylised kelp illustration

Turning the tide – what it takes to take out rats

Full episode

Thursday, 18 April 2024

An image of two albatross with their wings out on a hill behind a stylised kelp illustration

Summer 34 – Three decades of albatross research

Full episode

Thursday, 11 April 2024

An image of an island with lots of birds flying around it behind a stylised kelp illustration

Taking on water - marine protection in Aotearoa

Full episode

Thursday, 4 April 2024

An image of Penguins splashing in the ocean behind stylised kelp illustration

A tale of two islands – erect-crested penguins

Full episode

Thursday, 28 March 2024

A portrait of a godwit against a blue sky. The bird's wings are outstretched and it is being shot from below. The wing feathers are white with black edging. The breast plumage is mottled brown-orange and white. The face is brown-orange, with a long straight, dark bill.

The mystery of how godwits sleep in flight

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Thursday, 21 March 2024

An image of fish swimming underwater behind stylised kelp illustration

The stuff of life - Carbon capture in our ocean ecosystems

Full episode

Thursday, 14 March 2024

An image of a man holding a fish in a large tub behind stylised kelp illustration

Fish out of water - How to grow fish on land

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