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Crows can use mirrors to find food – NZ scientists
Auckland University researchers testing wild-caught crows’ reactions to mirrors found the birds did not recognise themselves but did find cached […]
Continue readingControversy over climate change course
A University lecturer may be stretching academic freedom too far when it comes to examining climate change in his classes. […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Foreign teams to work on promising NZ cancer drug
Martin Johnston writes in the New Zealand Herald about a ‘stealth’ anti-cancer drug, developed by Auckland University researchers, which is […]
Continue readingDom Post: Scientists prove humans can have two flus at once
Kate Newton writes in the Dominion Post about findings in a New Zealand-based study that show that two different flu […]
Continue readingThe Press: Scientists plan to drill deep into Alpine Fault
Paul Gorman writes in The Press about work by international scientists, to take place on NZ’s West Coast, aiming to […]
Continue readingMalborough Express/NZPA: Wine project to get $12m boost
Michael Berry (and NZPA) writes in the Malborough Express about the $12million FoRST grant which will fund research into sauvignon […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Islands in Pacific are growing, study says
Eloise Gibson writes in the New Zealand Herald about a study of Pacific Islands over the last few decades which […]
Continue readingBusiness Day: Healing drug might be on sale by 2013
James Weir writes in Business Day about a new wound-care drug, called Nexagon, which prevents damaged cells communicating their damage […]
Continue readingTVNZ: Students develop world first technology
Auckland University students have developed a means of sending data between computers using radio waves – something they hope will […]
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