Science Media Centre

The best science opinion piece published in New Zealand this week has to be the letter to the editor in the Dominion Post (November 11) written by past Rutherford Medal winner and distinguished scientist Jeff Tallon. As Barack Obama is showing with his pragmatic approach to appointing science and technology csars to his administration, National [...]

On the face of it, science hasn’t had much of a look-in during the protracted presidential debates that have played out between Barack Obama and John McCain in the last few weeks. But listen closely and you’ll find that when talk of the economy doesn’t dominate, science-driven issues do, including the pressing desire on the [...]