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The yellowhammer time machine
New Zealand’s yellowhammers may be from the British Isles, but they sing with European accents.
Freestyling
Island fortresses less protected than expected
Spin doctors
Ballerinas have modified brains which allow them to spin without feeling dizzy
Current events
Undersea mountains in the Drake Passage cause oceanic turbulence, altering long-term climate patterns
Flocking together
It's not telepathy.
Growing giants
Totara thriving on farmland.
TB thwarted
The secret of recurring tuberculosis cracked in a Dunedin lab.
Saving crops with spider venom
A new pesticide to protect crops.
Ice breakers
Southern Ocean swells have a greater impact on ice than expected.
Tough Enough
Will Antarctica's smallest residents care when the sea warms?
Being neighbourly
Social media’s answer to a conversation across the back fence
Armchairs Weather Reporters
The climate models behind predictions of droughts and floods require a colossal amount of data crunching. Scientists have decided to share the load. NIWA is calling on any member of the public with a computer and an internet connection to volunteer their hardware. Weather@home can be downloaded and run as a background process on a home computer to help crunch climate data. It takes any spare processing power and processes data from both a global climate model and NIWA’s regional climate model, then uploads the results for the scientists to scrutinise. Volunteers can sign up at weatherathome.net
Problem progeny
Pipiwharauroa, the shining cuckoo, Chalcites lucidus
Queens in waiting
Worker bees differ from queens by just a single gene
Milking it
Cows produce more milk after giving birth to female calves.
Cloud computing
Models suggest Chinese pollution is responsible for destructive storms.
Headstrong
Take it from the pukeko, it pays to be honest
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