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Dear Science

The Tuesday Wire's weekly dive into the wide world of science.

Featuring a rotating cast of smart people including Chemist Professor Allan Blackman and Physicist Dr Cushla McGoverin. 

Thanks to MOTAT, the museum inspiring the innovators of tomorrow.

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Dear Science: kilograms, earth's mass and music for plants: November 14th, 2018

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Wed 14 Nov 2018

For Dear Science, we talk about the changing weight of kilograms, measuring the earth’s mass and growing plants with the help of music.

Dear Science: November 7, 2018

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Wed 7 Nov 2018

On Dear Science we talk about cellphone radiation effects, hydropower and the creation of matter in space.

Dear Science: 31 October, 2018

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Wed 31 Oct 2018

For Dear Science we talk about alkaline water, age ratings in films being determined by chemistry in the air, and wrongful criminal drug conviction cases due to misconduct in the lab.

Dear Science: October 24, 2018

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Wed 24 Oct 2018

For Dear Science we talk about retracted research, germ infested hand dryers, and the latest Breakthrough award - which is worth more than the nobel prize.

Dear Science: October 17, 2018

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Wed 17 Oct 2018

For Dear Science we talk about the IPCC Report, DNA testing and magnetic explosions.

Dear Science: October 10th, 2018

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Wed 10 Oct 2018

On Dear Science today, AUT's Allan Blkackman discusses last week's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, new space worlds and viagra.

Dear Science: October 3rd, 2018

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Wed 3 Oct 2018

Allan joins us in studio this week to talk all things Nobel! Prize season is upon us, so we break down this year's achievements in Physics and Medicine. First up are immunologists James Allison and Tasuku Honjo who received the medicine Nobel prize for discovering how to release the brakes cancer puts on the immune system, with dramatically postivie results in patients with melanomas. We then celebrate the third female to ever win the physics Nobel, and the first in 55 years Prof Donna Strickland, alongside Arthur Ashkin and Gerard Mourou, for their groundbreaking work with laserbeams.

Dear Science with Allan Blackman: September 26, 2018

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Wed 26 Sep 2018

AUT's Allan Blackman is back! After a few weeks working and vacationing in Italy and France, he braves the cold and rain to talk about lab fires (and potential uselessness of Health and Safety procedures), hangry-ness (which he's sceptical about due to lack of anecdotal experience), and gene drives (and whether eradicating a mosquito is alright or not). 

Dear Science: September 19th, 2018

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Wed 19 Sep 2018

For Dear Science, Marcus Jones joins us for his last week covering Allan and we talk about plastic in the  ocean, predisposed forgiveness, and Ig-Nobel prizes.

Dear Science: September 12, 2018

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Wed 12 Sep 2018

E kōrero ana mātou ki a Marcus Jones mō te Ao Putaiao, e pā ana ki ngā whakawhiwhinga me ngā haumātakataka. For Dear Science with AUT's Marcus Jones, we talk about Pulsars and Nobel Prizes, and hurricanes and cyclones.