Our aim is to promote accuarate, bias-free reporting on science and technology by helping the media work more closely with the scientific community.
The New Zealand scientific community is made up of a diverse range of public and private organisations, spanning all sorts of industry sectors and scientific disciplines.
There are four main groups of scientific research centres and organisations involved in the commercialisation of science.
Wrangling over water issues
Polluted rivers, dirty dairying, greening the MacKenzie Country, dams for hydro-power and water allocation — these are just some of the big water issues that have been in the headlines in recent months.
Although freshwater is relatively abundant in New Zealand, uneven distribution of water resources and increasingly intensive use have led to [...]
In 1974-5, Mariner 10 flew past the planet Mercury three times before running out of fuel. It only mapped 45% of the planets surface.
