The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche and David J. Winelan. The Laureates independently invented […]
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Kiwi research opposes ‘opposites attract’ rule
“Everything you thought you knew about electrostatics is probably wrong” declares the first line of a Nature News article examining […]
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For the NZ Herald Online, Sarah Daniell poses 12 questions to well-known Physicist Sir Paul Callaghan. An excerpt (read in […]
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Roger Highfield, UK science writer and author of The Physics of Christmas, talks to Radio New Zealand’s Kathryn Ryan about […]
Continue readingAstrophysicists awarded Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a group of astronomers whose research revealed that the universe is […]
Continue readingSpeed camera needed for neutrinos?
Physicists have said – in a paper and in a seminar at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) – […]
Continue readingSunday Star Times: Mysteries of our universe
Adam Dudding writes in the Sunday Star Times about New Zealand scientist Peter Schwerdtfeger, who was recently awarded the prestigious […]
Continue readingTVNZ/One News: Scientists record music of the sun
British scientists say that the sun’s coronal loops vibrate like the strings of a guitar, and claim that they have […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: ‘Remarkable’ space scientist won international acclaim
Phoebe Falconer writes in the New Zealand Herald about the groundbreaking research of Sir Ian Axford, who died recently aged […]
Continue readingBiology, physics and chemistry are out, “science for life” is in
You’ve got to have sympathy for battling science teachers like Dawn Garbett, who writing in the Herald this week expressed […]
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