An article by Neal Wallace in the Otago Daily TImes looking at the appetite among players in the agricultural sector […]
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NZ Herald: How the food industry buried the folic acid plan
A New Zealand Herald article outlining how opposition from food industry groups helped defer mandatory fortification of bread with folic […]
Continue readingDevon Polaschek: Inside the mind of a killer
Devon Polaschek, Associate Professor of Criminal Psychology in the School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, a forensic clinical psychologist […]
Continue readingPig cell trial underway – media coverage
NZPA: Pig Transplant Company Set To Start Monkey Trials For Parkinsons Dominion Post:Diabetics queue up for pig treatment The Australian: […]
Continue readingJon Morgan: Measuring science hard work
Dominion Post writer Jon Morgan on the financial returns required of publicly-funded scientific institutions. Read in full here. An excerpt: […]
Continue readingJim Salinger: Arnie’s right on global warming
Climate scientist Jim Salinger writing in the Herald about California’s record on climate change mitigation policy: read in full here. […]
Continue readingFolic acid in bread: the saga
The debate about whether to make the addition of folic acid mandatory in all New Zealand bread (barring organic breads) […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Moon landing giant step in view of Earth
The New Zealand’s Herald editorial on the significance of the Apollo 11 moon landing 40 years ago today: AN excerpt: […]
Continue readingChris Barton: CERN and science’s great collision
A feature article by New Zealand Herald senior feature writer Chris Barton, who recently visited the site of the Large […]
Continue readingMassive Fiordland quake triggers tsunami alert
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the coast of Fiordland last night has made international headlines. The quake occurred at 9:22 […]
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