Jarrod Booker writes in the New Zealand Herald about research from the University of Otago showing that people who start […]
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NZ Herald: Synthetic life breakthrough met with awe and alarm
With the news of the successful creation of a functioning synthetic genome, the New Zealand Herald sums up some of […]
Continue readingSouthland Times: Think-tank creates cow twitter idea
Mark Hotton of the Southland Times writes about the idea, dreamt up by a think tank which explores the relationship […]
Continue readingDom Post: Capital gets unique carbon-dating machine
Kiran Chug writes in the Dominion Post about GNS’s new $3.4 million accelerator mass spectrometer, which will be used to […]
Continue readingODT: More science crumbs
An editorial in the Otago Daily Times discusses why, in terms of last week’s budget announcement for research, science and […]
Continue readingODT: Ozone changes predicted
NIWA scientists are predicting that New Zealand could face harmful levels of ozone in the winter months by year 2100. […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Where the wild things are
Alan Perrott writes in the New Zealand Herald about David Reubenheimer, a Kiwi nutritional ecologist who is travelling the world […]
Continue readingMedia coverage: Mobile phones and cancer risk
The release of a 10-year WHO study into mobile phone use and brain cancer risk — Interphone — has led […]
Continue readingDom Post: Igniting potential, but where are the matches?
In an opinion piece in the Dominion Post, Colin James wonders whether Prime Minister’s funding for Research, Science and Technology […]
Continue readingOamaru Mail/NZPA: Local scientist in ‘two minds’ about National’s investment
Rosa Studholme writes in the Oamaru Mail about a local scientist who feels Prime Minister John Key’s research, science and […]
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