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Naked Science
12:45 PM.Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith. This week a whale sets a new deep sea diving record, and scientists produce a synthetic copy of brewer's yeast in the lab. Audio
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Underground history
12:30 PM.We go underground with Nick Catford of Subterranea Britannica and Mike Lee of the Wrights Hill Fortress Restoration Society. Audio
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Tech: Windows XP and Amazon TV
12:15 PM.Amazon moves into TV and entertainment with a set-top box. Also, Microsoft's about to withdraw support for its Windows XP operating system. With Peter Griffin. Audio
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Smelling out disease
1:50 PM.George Preti of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadephia thinks that smell could help us diagnose illnesses in their earliest stages. Audio
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Gastrodiplomacy
1:40 PM.How countries are using their cooking to promote their interests on the world stage. Johanna Mendelson Forman's set up a course in culinary diplomacy at American University in Washington DC. Audio
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Jam making and jam science
1:10 PM.Tim and Kate Gibbs from Te Horo Foods near Otaki are making thousands of jars of jam every day! Then jammy science with Dr Bridget Stocker and Dr Mattie Timmer of Victoria University of Wellington. Audio
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Call of Duty champs
12:50 PM.Call of Duty is one of the world's most popular video games. Simon Parkin has just been at at the qualifiers for the Call of Duty World Championships at Twickenham stadium in London. Audio
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Lego crowdsourcing
12:40 PM.Brent Waller's an Australian Lego fan whose version of the Ghostbusters car is going to be officially produced by Lego. Audio
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Caffeinated
12:15 PM.Murray Carpenter explores the global business of caffeine in his book 'Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Hooks, Helps and Hurts Us'. Audio
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Faecal transplants
1:50 PM.We look at the debate going on in the US- soon to come to NZ- over how faecal transplants should be regulated. With Mark Smith of MIT and the OpenBiome stool bank. Audio
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Naked Science
1:35 PM.Chris Smith of The Naked Scientist on the discovery of gravity waves, revealing the secrets of the earliest days of our universe. Also our sense of smell is way more powerful than anybody thought. Audio
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Mountain biking
1:25 PM.Ash Burgess is a super-keen mountain biking instructor teaching children and adults how to ride. Audio
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Parisian car ban
1:15 PM.Anne Penketh is a journalist based in Paris, where half the cars in the city got banned from the roads this week in a desperate attempt to fight pollution. Audio
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Spotify bandwidth
12:45 PM.A listener called Paul is having some issues with his internet data plan blowing out recently, and the culprit's the popular music streaming service, Spotify. Our tech correspondent Peter Griffin… Read more Audio
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Rough diamonds
12:35 PM.Dr Graham Pearson of the University of Alberta has got his hands on a real rough diamond. It comes from about 500kms underground and is only worth about $20, but provides priceless evidence of a… Read more Audio
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Foldscope
12:15 PM.Manu Prakash and his team at Stanford University have designed the Foldscope. It's a cheap, easy-to-use microscope that costs less than a dollar to make and folds out from a piece of paper. Read more Audio
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The Secret World of Sleep
1:40 PM.Penelope Lewis is a neuroscientist who's written "The Secret World of Sleep". The book looks at what our brain is doing when our body is at rest. Audio
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Future antibiotics
1:15 PM.Professor Jef De Brabander's a synthetic chemist trying to create new antibiotics based on microbes found in the natural world. His new antibiotic Mangrolide A is based on micro-organisms found in… Read more Audio
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Amateur forecasters
12:50 PM.Josh Oliver and Russell Voice are amateur weather forecasters from Christchurch. Their local forecasts on Facebook are going viral. Audio
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Tech news
12:40 PM.Technology correspondent Peter Griffin on Australian plans to shoot space junk out of orbit with giant lasers. Also an internet-delivered TV channel joins the Freeview network, and the latest on the… Read more Audio
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Appcessible.net
12:25 PM.The global app market for smartphones and tablets is worth billions of dollars. But how easy are apps for blind people to access and navigate around? Jonathan Mosen of Appcessible.net is helping… Read more Audio
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Alzheimer's test?
12:15 PM.Mark Mapstone of the University of Rochester Medical Center is working on a new way of predicting the likelihood of getting Alzheimer's Disease by analysing blood. Audio
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The Great Indian Phone Book
1:50 PM.In The Great Indian Phone Book, Robin Jeffrey looks at the massive impact that cellphone technology's had on Indian life and society. Audio
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Naked Science
1:35 PM.The latest news from the world of science with Dr Chris Smith. This week, controlling hurricanes using giant offshore wind farms, and defrosting a 30,000 year old virus. Audio
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De-extinction
1:15 PM.De-extinction involves extracting DNA from an extinct species like a mammoth or a moa, and using its own genetic material to clone it in the lab. Nathaniel Rich has been looking at the current status… Read more Audio