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12:01 PM.Seeing better at school, 2016 in tech, how freezing gunshot victims could save lives, and naughty or nice: who really gets the Christmas goodies? Audio

12:55 PM.The way you move can say a lot about how your brain is ageing. Rodolfo Savica of the Mayo Clinic recently published a study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease linking gait with memory and cognitive… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.It's the season to be drilling and we're testing electric drills with George Block of consumer.org.nz. So how much do you need to spend to get a decent electric drill? We'll find out which brands get… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.Chris Smith on the amazing discovery of some size-10 footprints in Tanzania. No big deal? Well, these prints date back 3.6 million years and could fundamentally change our thinking about human… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.One of the oldest forms of mass communication, after smoke signals but before Snapchat, was the tradition of ringing church bells to signal what was happening in your neighbourhood. Even with uncapped… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:01 PM.Will you ring my bells?! Also walking in the footsteps of ancient man, the truth about electric drills, and could the way you walk be an early warning of cognitive decline? Audio

12:50 PM.Some regions earmarked for panda conservation are too small to sustain them and clinical trials on a new biomarker for finding and eliminating prostate cancer begin next year. Read more Audio

12:40 PM.An Australian tech company called DroneShield develops technology to identify drones and then take them down. No shots are actually fired, but its drone detection system uses high-powered microphones… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:35 PM.One way to keep birds and other animals safe from plastic rubbish is to collect it before they have a chance to eat it. The Waste Shark is a car-sized robotic catamaran that collects rubbish in a net… Read more Audio

12:25 PM.Loads of plastic rubbish finds its way into the sea every year and seabirds are hunting it out and eating it, fooled into thinking it's food by the way it smells. Matt Savoca of the University of… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.George Block has been testing the claims of three 'as seen on TV' products offering easier ways to paint your home, water the garden, and chop up your garlic. Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Infomercial products: do they work? Then why seabirds are eating plastic and robotic rubbish rescue offers a new way to clean up our seas. Also drone repellent technology and science news (pandas in… Read more Audio

12:55 PM.More and more people are dying taking photos of themselves every year. So where are the most dangerous locations, and could an app save lives in the future? Ponnurangam Kumaraguru of IIITD in Delhi is… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Peter Griffin on the news that Netflix is now offering a downloading option (and not just streaming) for some shows. Also things are heating up with mobile wallets, with the BNZ announcing that it… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Patrick Meier uses a blend of publicly available data, eyewitness accounts. social media posts and drone technology to build up detailed pictures of places after earthquake, tsunami or other natural… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.Monica and Paul Mallinson aren't scared of needles: they grow real Christmas trees in rural Wairarapa. Every year they sell nearly 1000 pines, spruces, cedars and firs all grown on their 4-acre… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:01 PM.Growing Christmas trees, 'crisis mapping' after natural disasters, downloading from Netflix, and studying death by selfies. Audio

12:50 PM.A 24,000 kilometre long trail for trampers, cyclists and paddlers in Canada is nearly complete. The Great Trail's been nearly 25 years in the planning but when all the work is done, hopefully next… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:40 PM.Eating high-calorie foods causes changes to the the bacteria living inside your gut which can hamper weight loss and contribute to yo-yo dieting, according to a new study. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.George Block of consumer.org.nz has been putting the latest barbecue models to the test, from portables to 4-burner behemoths. He's measured how well they're made, how easy they are to use, and how… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Since the big Kaikoura earthquake last week there have already been well over 5000 aftershocks, all logged and recorded by GeoNet, the earthquake and volcano monitoring system that sends alerts to… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:01 PM.Earthquake alerts, BBQ buyer's guide, are your gut microbes making you fat? and Canada's Great Trail. Audio

12:50 PM.The world's first virtual reality operation was streamed live from London recently to an audience in the tens of thousands in 140 countries.   Read more Video, Audio

12:15 PM.After the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck at 12.02am on Monday 14th November near Hanmer Springs in the South Island of New Zealand, Simon Morton takes a trip by mountain bike north of Kaikoura to… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:01 PM.Along a fractured highway, and using VR to teach the surgeons of the future. Read more Audio