RNZ : National : Programmes : Our Changing World

Thursday, 4 May 2006

Radiolarians; whale and dolphin genetics; agricultural nitrogen; fertility and cancer treatment

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Thursday, 27 April 2006

Creating a Bose-Einstein condensate; hydrogen fuel production; Lord Ron Oxburgh on energy alternatives; binge drinking

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Thursday, 20 April 2006

Neanderthals and their tools; the birth of stars and planets; home energy audit (part 2); Waitakere Health and Lifestyle Expo

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Thursday, 13 April 2006

Smelling elephant mucus; the export potential of kina; home energy audit (part 1); breast reconstructions

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Thursday, 6 April 2006

Antarctic climate change impacts; Marvin, the robot security guard; New Zealand’s climate change policy; premature births, associated birth defects and neo-natal problems

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Thursday, 30 March 2006

Modelling the lung; sleep deprivation research (part 2); Avian Influenza; the Healthy Housing Programme

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Thursday, 23 March 2006

Machines that can smell; sleep deprivation research (part 1);; bear farming and bear dancing; the nutritious kiwifruit

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Thursday, 16 March 2006

Beneficial microbes; rugged microbes and DNA testing; songs of the Humpback whale; the Canterbury Suicide Project at the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences

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Thursday, 9 March 2006

Insect visual skills; Kevin Trenberth, climate scientist; biofuel; Hepatitis B and C

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Thursday, 2 March 2006

Climate change research in Antarctica (part 1); didymo in the food chain; surgical operations on a laptop

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Thursday, 23 February 2006

Cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil (part 2); the huia and New Zealand’s most infamous ornithologist, Walter Buller; the threatened giant land snail on Mt Augustus; the National Influenza Strategy Group

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Thursday, 16 February 2006

Oceans and climate (part 2); the Waiuku in Support of Wind Energy group; the Canterbury Cancer Network and their multi-disciplinary cancer centre concept

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Thursday, 9 February 2006

Oceans and climate (part 1); uptake and dispersion of marine nutrients by Westland Black Petrels; Heart Week, and the current situation of heart disease in New Zealand

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OGLE-2005-BGL-390Lb, the most Earth-like planet discovered so far; the Marion Dufresne, one of the world’s largest research vessels; how the children of Barry Town School in the 1940s discovered they had a special species of seabird; the vaccine Gardasil and cervical cancer

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Thursday, 26 January 2006

Plants emitting methane; paua anaesthetics; the dolomite mine on Mt Burnett; basal cell carcinomas, the most common form of skin cancer

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Thursday, 22 December 2005

Australian scientist Tim Flannery and his new book The Weather Makers; the 2005 Genesis Energy Realise the Dream science competition; the International Year of Physics; the World Ocean Observatory in New York; polycystic ovarian syndrome

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Thursday, 15 December 2005

Climate change research (part 2) - greenhouse gases nitrous oxide and methane; policy and legislation that aims to protect the marine environment; the psychology of cancer and medical communication

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Thursday, 8 December 2005

Climate change research (part 1) - terrestrial ecosystems; the Long Bay Okura Great Park Society; the second national conference on diseases of the breast

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Thursday, 1 December 2005

Extreme athletes and extreme scientists; the Greening the Screen environmental responsiblity project; concussion

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Thursday, 24 November 2005

Cook Strait and its ecology; Stonehenge Aotearoa, remodelled for the southern skies; Andrology Services and the One Helix Trust, promoting fertility research in the conservation of threatened species; Western Bay of Plenty mobile whanau nursing service

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