Yesterday Jim Mora’s Radio New Zealand show Afternoons featured robust discussion on the topic of science and the media, focussing […]
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Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
TOP TEN SCIENCE STORIES OF 2014
It was a dramatic year for science, one that witnessed a severe outbreak of Ebola in West Africa and an […]
Continue readingPublic health researchers under attack – editorial
Public health researchers are calling for greater integrity in policy making and an end to the attack strategies which have […]
Continue readingProf Ian Shaw on dangerous dust
Writing in the Press, University of Canterbury toxicology Professor Ian Shaw outlines the risk associated with dust thrown up by […]
Continue readingNicola Gaston on science and democracy
In a guest post for the Public Address blog network, Dr Nicola Gaston, President of the New Zealand Association of […]
Continue readingJim Salinger on why NZ is drying out
New Zealand is drying out, and here’s why By Jim Salinger, University of Auckland (this article is republished from The […]
Continue readingJim Salinger on why NZ is drying out
[this link has been updated, to read Dr Nicola Gaston’s blog on science and democracy, click here] New Zealand is […]
Continue readingNew Zealand’s ‘blue economy’ – Dame Anne Salmond
Dame Anne Salmond, patron of the Te Awaroa 1000 Rivers Project, writes about the country’s ‘blue economy’ in the New […]
Continue readingScientists examine colossal squid at Te Papa
Scientists from Te Papa and AUT University have dissected a colossal squid, streamed live online earlier today, to find out more […]
Continue readingA rough guide to science advice – The Guardian
Below is an excerpt from a Guardian article published ahead of the Science Advice to Governments summit which gets underway […]
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