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Obama will “restore science to its rightful place”
Barack Obama may have looked slightly confused today as he fluffed his lines during his swearing in ceremony in Washington […]
Continue readingThe Week In Science: New reseach and hot issues – to Jan 22
The silly season is over and the country’s newsroom’s are starting to fill up again with (ahem) enthusiastic and refreshed […]
Continue readingControversy over ‘fat tax’
We are in the grips of an obesity epidemic here in New Zealand, with one in three adults now overweight […]
Continue readingUK stem cell research falters as US looks to give green light
Today’s Independent newspaper in Britain carries the front page news that stem cell research focusing on controversial human-animal hybrid cloning […]
Continue readingThe state of science journalism in New Zealand
If you’re a journalist you’ll be glad to have seen the back of 2008, the year in which the gradual […]
Continue readingHow your friends can make you fat, happy and smoke-free!
New Scientist‘s cover story this week looks at some fascinating social research under way that suggests moods, attitudes, behaviours can […]
Continue reading2008 ends in climate change media confusion
The Dominion Post continued its climate change sceptic-friendly run of articles today with a re-print of Daily Telegraph writer Christopher […]
Continue readingNZ methane mitigation research in New Scientist
The current issue of New Scientist features an interesting article which draws on research underway in New Zealand and highlights […]
Continue readingBiodiversity – how much remains to be discovered?
For more than 200 years, countless scientists have devoted themselves to the task of elaborating and cataloguing in minute detail […]
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