RNZ : National : Programmes : Our Changing World

Thursday, 8 November 2007

Biofuels; tuatara release and capture; nurse practitioners

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Thursday, 1 November 2007

Ancient DNA research using material from Egyptian ibis mummies; native bats, echolocation and navigation using the Earth's magnetic field..

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Thursday, 25 October 2007

A field guide to wild orchids; native frogs and National Frog Week; brain-imaging research on addiction; bereavement support after deaths in hospice.

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Thursday, 18 October 2007

Hector's dolphin threat management plan; protein crystallography; the joys of slow travel with Ed Gillespie; preventing domestic violence.

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Thursday, 11 October 2007

Hutt Valley ecological restoration; NZ fossil exhibition; bird song; exercise and depression.

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Thursday, 4 October 2007

Marine BioBlitz on Wellington's South Coast; human-computer interaction at HIT Lab NZ's open house; getting down to the basics on carbon trading; the importance of mitochondria in living cells.

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Lodgepole pine beetles decimate Canadian forests; sustainable accommodation and ecolabels (part 2); Will Steger on his voyages to both poles and the rapid melting of the icesheets; Is preventative medicine the best medicine for elderly patients?

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Thursday, 20 September 2007

The world''s first mandatory emissions trading scheme; sustainable tourism and ecolabels (part 1); Greenland trip for Otago Girls' team; new X-ray technology.

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Thursday, 13 September 2007

A look at an Australian car-sharing service that's taking vehicles off the road; the long-term effects of in vitro fertilisation; bird species that outsource their parenting duties to other birds; KODE biotechnology firm.

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Thursday, 6 September 2007

Microrobots designed to swim inside the human body; winter ultraviolet levels; how the brain finds beauty in averages; research on a rare childhood disorder.

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Thursday, 30 August 2007

Richard Taylor, physicist with a passion for art and fractals; hatchlings of the very rare Brother’s Island tuatara on Matiu/Somes Island; awheto, a fungus that could become the source of high-value bioactive ingredients; nutritionist Elaine Rush explains how lifestyle changes can help us live healthier and longer lives.

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Thursday, 23 August 2007

Conservation Week, a weed swap and an art exhibit about gorse; research that suggests New Zealand sank below the ocean after breaking off from Gondwana; New Caledonian crows demonstrate their ability to reason by analogy; Pacific Island Health Forum (part 2).

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Thursday, 16 August 2007

Cognitive research that uses honeybees as a model for the human brain -- Alison Mercer shares her team's work on queen bee pheromone's effect on dopamine pathways. Also, part 1 of a rememberance of Sir Thomas Davis at the 2007 Pacific Health Conference.

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Thursday, 9 August 2007

Green buildings -- a tour of the Department of Conservation's sustainably-designed head offices; China considers lifting its ban on domestic trade in endangered tigers; examining mosasaur fossils with paleontologist Michael Caldwell; a more accurate pap smear for NZ women.

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Thursday, 2 August 2007

A proposed World Heritage Park in the Night Sky at Mt. John Observatory; the Pauatahanui wetland reserve; landfills and the zero-waste movement; robotic surgery.

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Thursday, 26 July 2007

Methane caprture at the Wellington landfill; Disposing of Unwanted Medicines Properly (DUMP); our reliance on transcontinental submarine fibre-optic cables for telecommunications; the Otago Energy Research Centre.

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Thursday, 19 July 2007

Australian research on slowing onset and progression of Huntington’s disease; evidence for the NZ “man drought”; paua polyculture partnership between Maori and NIWA; how white blood cells use bleach to kill bacteria.

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Thursday, 12 July 2007

One of the noisiest Adelie penguin colonies in Antarctica; DOC's annual whale survey in Cook Strait; a new vaccine to tackle TB.

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Thursday, 5 July 2007

Hidden Antarctic life forms; palaeontologist James Crampton on whether the diversity of plants and creatures is growing over time; New Zealand whalers; links between genetics and depression

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Thursday, 28 June 2007

Jessie Jacobsen, 2007 MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year, on neurogenetics and Huntington's disease; reducing possum fertility; controlling wilding conifers in the South Island; KAREN, the Kiwi Advanced Research and Educational Network, sharing genomic data.

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