John Nixon, an engineer and chief executive of Auckland-based Optical Network Engineering, gives a telecommunications expert’s view on Australia’s A$43 […]
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Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
The mother of all oil spills
Professor Ravi Naidu is the Managing Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment. […]
Continue readingIranian technology from a Kiwi technologist’s perspective
George Jones, past President of the Royal Society’s Wellington branch, recently visited Iran and was given an insight into the […]
Continue readingNZH: Hand-held, hands-free – bad call
Tony Lambert, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Auckland and Charlene Hallett has recently submitted an MSc thesis […]
Continue readingFood miles expert on Kim Hill show
Dr Gareth Edwards-Jones, Principal investigator on a study of the comparative merits of consuming vegetables produced locally and overseas speaking […]
Continue readingPeter Gluckman: Mixed cues confuse young brains
Excerpts from a column by Professor Gluckman, director of the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, a leading centre for research […]
Continue readingBiofuels still the way to go
Professor David Harries, Director of the Centre for Excellence into Energy for Sustainable Transport at Australia’s Murdoch University & Curtin […]
Continue readingChris Barton: Copyright not about criminalising kids
Chris Barton writing in today’s New Zealand Herald slams the section 92a provisions of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Mike Lee on the Hauraki Gulf as a marine park
Mike Lee, Hauraki Gulf conservationist and chairman of the Auckland Regional Council, laments the slow progress towards establishing the Hauraki […]
Continue readingGenetic testing – the legal and ethical questions
Lawyers, scientists and health officials gathered in Wellington yesterday to discuss the findings of the University of Otago’s Human Genome […]
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