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Wild Eyes lockdown activities for kids, Episode 4: Slime Time
Check the video for great ideas to entertain and educate the kids during lockdown.
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Wild Eyes Episode 4: Slime Time. Wild Eyes is a free NZ website that provides awesome digital rewards to kids for completing fun backyard nature missions. Wild Eyes missions are designed to be completed at home or in a classroom and are perfect for weekend or holiday activities. Funded by NZ On Air, MBIE's Nation of Curious Minds and UNESCO.
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Wild Eyes Episode 3: Animal Detective
Wild Eyes Episode 3: Animal Detective. Wild Eyes is a free NZ website that provides awesome digital rewards to kids for completing fun backyard nature missions. Wild Eyes missions are designed to be completed at home or in a classroom and are perfect for weekend or holiday activities. Funded by NZ On Air, MBIE's Nation of Curious Minds and UNESCO.
Wild Eyes lockdown activities for kids, Episode 3: Animal Detective
Check the video for great ideas to entertain and educate the kids during lockdown.
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NZ launches three new clinical trials in pandemic treatment
NZ hospitals hosting three clinical trials exploring potential treatments for Covid-19.
Dr Gary Payinda: The search for a Covid-19 vaccine
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Wild Eyes lockdown activities for kids, Episode 2: Bird Cafe
Check the video for great ideas to entertain and educate the kids during lockdown.
Wild Eyes Episode 2: Bird Cafe
Wild Eyes Episode 2: Bird Cafe. Wild Eyes is a free NZ website that provides awesome digital rewards to kids for completing fun backyard nature missions. Wild Eyes missions are designed to be completed at home or in a classroom and are perfect for weekend or holiday activities. Funded by NZ On Air, MBIE's Nation of Curious Minds and UNESCO.
Wild Eyes kids' activities, Episode 1: How to build a backyard bivvy in lockdown
Check the video for great ideas to entertain and educate the kids during lockdown.
Peter Shepherd: Ignore 'Plan B', let's stay with Plan A
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Wild Eyes: How to build a backyard bivvy
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NZ needs its own Covid-19 vaccine programme, scientists say
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Scientists can pick an imported Covid-19 case apart from one caught locally. Here's how.
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Climate change could cause abrupt biodiversity losses this century
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Covid-19: Public wearing masks is 'cosmetic, not effective' - UK doctor
Social distancing and washing your hands offered far more protection than wearing masks.
Why the race for a vaccine is as much about politics as it is science
The dash for a Covid-19 vaccine is dominated by private-sector companies.
Ancient bit of string shows Neanderthal handiwork
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Covid-19: An inhaler to fight coronavirus?
NZ scientists are looking at whether coronavirus could be fooled by a 'decoy' molecule.
Coronavirus Covid-19: How is NZ's testing regime going?
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Hello, g'day, kei te pēhea koe? She's back! Suzy Cato fronts lockdown education TV
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NZ research community's 'unprecedented' response to Covid-19
NZ's biggest health research funders overwhelmed at 'unprecedented' response to Covid-19.
Scientists to monitor wastewater from Covid-19 cluster areas
ESR scientists will monitor wastewater for any traces of Covid-19.
University lab makes, distributes 600 litres of sanitiser
A university lecturer and his students have made more than 600 litres of hand sanitiser.
Big Read: Coronavirus v the incredible human immune system
How does our dazzlingly clever immune system confront coronavirus? Jamie Morton explains.
Coronavirus: Top NZ scientist buoyed at vaccine race
A top NZ scientist has 'every faith' a vaccine to stop Covid-19 can be found - but when?
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Not sweet as: Some baby formula has more sugar than Fanta
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