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A decade of earthquakes
3 Sep 2020Ten years after the Darfield earthquake, three seismologists from GeoNet reflect on a decade of big earthquakes and what we've learnt from them.
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Time travelling with a climate scientist
27 Aug 2020Dead corals cast up the shore of Aitutaki, in the Cook Islands, provide a window into the Pacific Ocean's marine climate hundreds of years ago.
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Green chemistry - better, safer, more sustainable
20 Aug 2020From safer solvents to make better batteries, to catalysts that can clean up wastewater, green chemists are developing better ways of making stuff.
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How sound influences the taste of food
Food scientist Nazimah Hamid from AUT says that the sound of the space we eat in can have surprising effects on the taste of food.
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Covid-19 unmasked: experts discuss coronavirus
'Covid-19 unmasked: understanding the outbreak' is a panel discussion from the 2020 New Zealand International Science Festival.
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In search of southern right whales
30 Jul 2020Emma Carroll talks about the return of southern right whales from the edge of extinction and a project asking the public to report whale sightings.
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‘The week that snowed’ – shedding new light on old weather records
30 Jul 2020Take some old weather records. Add citizen scientists. Mix in machine learning. Result = something that might help predict future weather patterns.
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Voices from Antarctica 8: Under the ice
16 Jul 2020Tiny plants that live on the underside of sea ice form an upside-down garden that feeds krill and is the base of the Antarctic food web.
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Voices from Antarctica 7: What the ice is saying
9 Jul 2020Researchers are using hot water to drill through the Ross ice shelf, to discover what has happened to Antarctic ice during previous periods of warm climates.
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Voices from Antarctica 6: Seal songs
2 Jul 2020Alison Ballance eavesdrops on the songs of the world's southern-most mammal, the Weddell seal, and finds out about sea ice.
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Wheelie bin robot inventor wins science prize
2 Jul 2020Student Thomas James wanted to help his elderly neighbour, so he invented a wheelie bin robot to take her large recycling bin to the kerb.
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Passionate maths teacher wins a PM’s Science Prize
2 Jul 2020Michelle Dalrymple, winner of the 2019 Prime Minister's Science Teacher's Prize, says being mathematically literate is an important life skill.
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‘Melting ice & rising seas’ team wins PM Science Prize
2 Jul 2020A team finding links between melting ice sheets in Antarctica and rising sea levels in NZ has won the 2019 Prime Minister's Science Prize.
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Voices from Antarctica 5: Waiting for Emperors
25 Jun 2020Emperor penguin researchers are waiting for tagged birds to return, and an elderly radar system sheds light on a very windy part of the atmosphere.
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Voices from Antarctica 4: Best journey in the world
18 Jun 2020Alison Ballance meets a colony of Emperor penguins and their NIWA researchers, and finds out about making water on the frozen continent
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Voices from Antarctica 3: Flags to physics
11 Jun 2020Keeping Scott Base warm and well-lit no matter the weather outside, and a physics experiment that eavesdrops on messages to submarines.
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Voices from Antarctica 2: Scott Base
4 Jun 2020Alison Ballance has her first day at New Zealand's Antarctic station, Scott Base, and visits the historic Hillary's Hut.
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Voices from Antarctica 1: Ice Flight
28 May 2020Alison Ballance dons her extreme cold weather clothing for a trip to Antarctica - but getting to the frozen continent can take time.
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Little bit of sea-level rise = lots more coastal flooding
14 May 2020Scientists warn that a small amount of sea-level rise could have big consequences for some low-lying parts of New Zealand.
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Probing the hidden continent of Zealandia
7 May 2020Ocean floor rock cores drilled into the sunken continent of Zealandia are revolutionising our understanding of Earth's history and how continents form.
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On yer bike – how cyclists, pedestrians & cars share city streets
There is a fine art to how pedestrians, cyclists, and cars and buses navigate the shared thoroughfares of our towns and cities.
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Aussie bushfire smoke goes stratospheric
30 Apr 2020More than four months after it formed, a large blob of sooty dust from Australia's massive bushfires is still circling the southern hemisphere.
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100-year moth project – in the footsteps of George Vernon Hudson
23 Apr 2020Modern-day citizen scientists are following in the footsteps of a well-known Wellington naturalist, collecting moths to document a century of change.
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Maths, models & insights into the coronavirus pandemic
Mathematician Alex James, from Te Pūnaha Matatini & the University of Canterbury, explains the art and science of modelling the coronavirus pandemic.
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