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Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
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British scientists who have become the first researchers to document key characteristics for the success of invading parasites, have also […]
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Media commentator Russell Brown reflects on the CERN Higgs announcement on his Hard News blog on the Public Address network. […]
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In the latest issue of Element magazine (distributed with the New Zealand Herald) Andy Kenworthy explores new research into the […]
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Journalist Rod Oram is blogging daily from the Rio+20 conference in Brazil. You can follow his take on the proceedings […]
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Seventeen year-old Kiwi Brittany Trilford, winner of the ‘Date with History’ competition, takes on the role of the ‘Voice of […]
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This weekend, Radio New Zealand’s Kim Hill caught up with Dr Siouxsie Wiles -Director of the Bioluminescent Superbugs Group at the […]
Continue readingPeter Gluckman on the next ten years of NZ science
Prof Sir Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, charts a course for the future of New Zealand in […]
Continue readingToby Manhire, Peter Griffin at the Transit of Veunus Forum
Columnist Toby Manhire writes about his experience so far at the Transit of Venus Forum – Lifting Our Horizons, for […]
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The Dominion Post‘s Hawke’s bay reporter, Marty Sharp (winner of the the 2012 Cannon Media Award for the Reporter – […]
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