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12:15 PM.Yeshe Dawa's perfected a gluten-free bread that's liberating her from a life of allergies, food intolerances and dietary restrictions. Her Freedom loaf takes centre stage at her cafe, the Midnight… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:01 PM.Going gluten free in a cafe that only serves toast, flaming phones and selling social media: the market for your data. Also have humans reached peak longevity? And restoring touch to paralysed… Read more Audio

12:50 PM.Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists has been trying to make sense of the work behind the Nobel science prizes announced this week. So what's been recognised, why is it important, and what on earth… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Professor Mandyam (Srini) Srinivasan from the University of Queensland has recruited a high-flying team of 10 budgies and is flying them down tunnels to try to make them bump into each other. He's… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Technology news with Peter Griffin and Google launches its new Pixel phone and a digital home assistant called (you've guessed it!) Home. Now search is anywhere and everywhere. Plus Facebook is hoping… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.How 3D printed models can be used to teach blind students about astronomy. This Way Up visits Manurewa High School in Auckland to experience 'tactile astronomy' in action. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:01 PM.Touching the universe: astronomy for the blind, Google take over your home (and your phone), avoiding mid-air collisions using 'the Budgie Paradox', and half holes and baffling bagels: the 2016 Nobel… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.In 2013 Gaia, the world's most powerful space telescope, was launched by the European Space Agency. Its aim is to create the first ever HD map of our galaxy, the Milky Way, in order to answer those… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:25 PM.Agapanthus (agapanthus orientalis/praecox) are a feature of many gardens and public spaces here in New Zealand. With their ability to grow in many conditions, provide ground cover, and stabilise banks… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.17-year-old Finn Ross was on holiday in Fiji and saw how local people were struggling with old or broken fishing gear, and the problems this was causing. So Finn and his mate Max Lichtenstein decided… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:01 PM.Sending second-hand fishing equipment to the Pacific, how to get rid of agapanthus, and a new hi-def map of the galaxy. Audio

12:06 PM.Kashmir Hill of fusion.net uncovered a digital horror story that revolves around location, and how the specific GPS coordinates of Joyce Taylor's Kansas farmhouse got linked to more than half a… Read more Audio

12:05 PM.The rate of serious mid-air turbulence is increasing. Paul Williams from The University of Reading studies the air patterns that cause turbulence, and reckons that climate change is a big contributor… Read more Audio

12:04 PM.Professor John Jakicic of the University of Pittsburgh led a US study that studied nearly 500 people; half used fitness trackers and half didn't. And it was the group without the tech who had lost… Read more Audio

12:03 PM.Greg Milner has written a history of GPS - the global positioning system developed in the '70s and controlled by the US military. He recently published Pinpoint: How GPS is changing our world. Read more Audio

12:02 PM.Christchurch is starting to track its half a million rubbish bins. The council is fitting all of its wheelie bins with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags.Tim Joyce of Christchurch City Council… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:01 PM.Bin tracking, how GPS is changing our world, a 'digital hell', turbulence on planes and wearables and weight loss: do they work? Audio

12:06 PM.Peter Griffin with the latest tech news, and this week what colour is the internet?! It's a question that designers and businesses are wrestling with as they try to get us to spend as long as possible… Read more Audio

12:05 PM.Hivemind is a New Zealand company using sensors to measure things like the weight of the hive, temperature and bee movements in and out to help beekeepers keep an eye on what's happening in their… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:04 PM.Sitting by a cosy fire, the smell of home baking, perhaps a few candles, and your nearest and dearest around you...the Danish would call all this 'hygge' (pronounced 'hoogah'). If you haven't heard of… Read more Audio

12:03 PM.With warmer weather not too far away (in theory), George Block of consumer.org.nz reviews the best line trimmers on the market. So should you go petrol or electric? Read more Audio

12:02 PM.Science news with Dr Chris Smith. A team at Stanford is using brain computer interfaces to get monkeys to type at speeds of up to 12 words per minute. Throw in some predictive text (good old… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Line trimmers, tech (colour of the internet and web filtering plans), beehive monitoring using sensors, here comes the "hygge", and science news. Audio

12:06 PM.Bex de Prospo and Peter Randrup run Anteater in Christchurch. They are supplying insects to New Zealand restaurants, and are trying to get more of us eating them. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:05 PM.George Block of consumer.org.nz has been reviewing 11 flavours of rechargeable AA batteries to find out which ones are best, and can save you most cash. So how quickly do rechargeables go flat, how… Read more Audio