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Our Changing World
Stories about science and nature from out in the field and inside the labs across Aotearoa New Zealand. Winner 2022 New Zealand Radio Awards Best Factual Podcast - Episodic
Thursdays 7:30pm, repeated 1:15am Sundays. One feature plays 3:35pm Wednesdays.
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Wahakura - a woven cradle to save babies' lives
The 2020 Tahunui-A-Rangi Award goes to David Tipene Leach for the wahakura, a woven bassinet to address the problem of sudden unexpected death in infancy. Read more Audio
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Award for using DNA to better understand plants & animals
12 Nov 2020Geneticist Neil Gemmell has won the 2020 Hutton Medal for using DNA & new genomic technologies to better understant plants & animals. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 12 November 2020
The invention of a woven bassinet to save babies' lives & a geneticist seeking to understand plants & animals have won awards at the 2020 Research Honours Aotearoa. Audio
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'Academic superstar' wins top research award
NZ's top research award, the Rutherford Medal, has gone to Brian Boyd, whose work spans Shakespeare to Nabokov to Popper, & weaves arts and sciences together. Read more Audio
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Focus on political economy & Te Ao Māori a winning combination
5 Nov 2020Maria Bargh's work on political economies and the environment is focused on Māori communities and has won her the 2020 Te Puāwaitanga Award. Read more Audio
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Colourful plants help young researcher win award
5 Nov 2020Unravelling how genes control colour in petunias has won Nick Albert the 2020 Hamilton Award and could help breed more nutritious fruit. Read more Audio
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Climate change - striking a balance
A group of Dunedin students talk about what they learned making an Otago Museum exhibition about climate change inequality. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 5 November 2020
5 Nov 2020The 2020 Research Honours go to a Nabokov expert, a Maori political economist & a colourful plant breeder, and students talk climate change. Audio
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Researchers win big at awards
Researchers from the sciences and the humanities have had their achievements recognised with awards from the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Read more
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Putting deep sea corals to the test
29 Oct 2020Deep sea corals are being put to the test at NIWA to find out how they cope with sediment. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 29 October 2020
29 Oct 2020NIWA ecologists have been stress testing deep sea corals to find out they cope with sediment. Audio
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Grass and the science of urban CO2
22 Oct 2020Jocelyn Turnbull from GNS Science is measuring how much CO2 we're producing in NZ towns - and she's doing it by cutting the grass. Read more Audio
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