The Wall Street Journal’s South East Asia bureau chief Patrick Barta, visited New Zealand to report on research efforts underway […]
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Bob Brockie: From Darwin to Destruction
Bob Brockie writing in the Dominion Post outlines how German biologist Ernest Haekel perverted the work of Charles Darwin to […]
Continue readingPaul Callaghan: Wool to Weta – Herald feature
Dr Paul Callaghan, Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University has just launched his book Wool to Weta: […]
Continue readingUK health watchdog issues warning on cold medicines
Britain’s healthcare watchdog, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has recommended that parents not give their children over-the-counter cold […]
Continue readingIs the story of the century being missed?
An interesting piece on the Time website by environmental reporter Bryan Walash looks asks whether the media’s patchy coverage of […]
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Continue readingJunk food back on the school menu
A new paper published today in the New Zealand Medical Journal discusses the Government’s recent decision to remove the healthy […]
Continue readingBOOTES-3 a major boost for New Zealand astronomy
New Zealand astronomers will seek a glimpse of the universe’s first generation of stars using BOOTES-3, a new gamma-ray telescope […]
Continue readingAn “undoubted setback”: Scientists on NASA’s satellite crash
NASA’s attempt to launch a carbon emissions-monitoring satellite into space has failed with the US$278 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory crashing […]
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