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12:50 PM.Birch water, canned water, electrolyte-enhanced water, children specific agua...the global market for H20 is going off! And even if you aren't thirsty the marketers will make sure there's a water to… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Professor Aviv Regev from MIT is one of the leaders of The Human Cell Atlas, an ambitious project that aims to map the 35 trillion cells in our body that make us who we are. It's been described as a… Read more Audio

12:25 PM.This week, the giant retailer Amazon looks like it could be coming to Australia. Meanwhile, you might soon have to pay GST on all the goods you buy online, not just purchases of digital goods… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.A local insurer is encouraging its customers to try in-vehicle eye tracking technology as a way of reducing road accidents. This Way Up looks at how this eye tracking technology works with Charles… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Tracking eyes to save lives, is Amazon heading Down Under?, a Google Maps for the human body and the global thirst for bottled water. Read more Audio

12:50 PM.Acrylamide's a chemical produced when starchy foods are cooked at high temperatures, so we ingest low doses of it in things like chips, toast, cereal and instant coffee. It's been in the news in… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Conventional wheelchairs aren't really an option in many parts of Africa; they're too expensive and they just can't handle the conditions. Janna Deeble grew up in Kenya and saw the problem for… Read more Audio

12:25 PM.Retired aircraft engineer Keith Martin and his wife Faith are doll doctors. Over the last 40 years they've saved about 10,000 dolls of all shapes and sizes. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.Popular video game titles like FIFA, Pro Evolution Soccer and Football Manager have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide. Now these games have become so realistic they have started… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.How video games are changing football, a visit to a doll hospital, using bike parts to build an open source wheelchair, and should we be worried about acrylamide in our food? Audio

12:50 PM.How organisations are using machine learning to discover who you are. Pedro Domingos is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. His book 'The Master Algorithm… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Resttest.org was a global crowdsourced experiment that aimed to explored people's attitudes and opinions about rest, and how they like to relax. People have been participating in the study from all… Read more Audio

12:35 PM. A government survey in Japan has just found that 1 in 5 workers are at risk of dying from overwork. Read more Audio

12:25 PM.A New York restaurant has started showcasing the best in global granny grub, and it's getting rave reviews.  Read more Audio

12:15 PM.BlindSquare is a navigation app that uses a combination of GPS and Bluetooth to help blind people navigate outside, and also inside buildings and shopping centres where GPS doesn't work. Wellington… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Indoor navigation for the blind, global granny grub, Japan's workplace issues, how do you rest and relax, and who should control all those algorithms? Audio

12:55 PM.Naked Science news with Dr Chris Smith. This week Japanese researchers produce eggs capable of being fertilised and able to produce healthy baby mice in a culture dish using stem cells for the very… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Researchers in Germany studied nearly 10,000 cinema goers have detected changes in the chemical composition of the movie theatre air which mirrored the audience's reactions to particular scenes. Read more Audio

12:35 PM.A buyer's guide to lawnmowers with George Block of consumer.org.nz. And for the first time in 55 years an electric rechargeable mower tops the list, but it will cost you an arm and a leg! Read more Audio, Gallery

12:25 PM.Tech correspondent Peter Griffin with an update on local broadband services, with changes and offers announced this week that could affect you. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Brianne West of Ethique is trying to take some of the water out of your bathroom, by dehydrating cosmetics, toiletries and beauty products. Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Taking the water out of beauty products, broadband update and latest offers, the best lawnmowers, breath testing for emotion and science news (eggs from stem cells and knee cartilage repair). Audio

12:50 PM.Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists with the news that scientists use gene editing to find a potential cure for the inherited blood disorder sickle cell anaemia, and a way to use brain implants to… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Science writer Carl Zimmer looks at "the latest volley in a long-running debate among scientists about the human life span". Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Peter Griffin on a US report that shows how Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are selling information about us to law enforcement agencies. Also newly released advertising figures show how… Read more Audio