Expert reaction to Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka The comments below were […]
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A decade on the leading edge of science media
Our colleagues at the UK Science Media Centre in London have had a big week, celebrating 10 years in business […]
Continue readingGM biotech players outline their science roadmaps
ABIC 2012 Digest – Day Two: SMC media advisor Dacia Herbulock is attending the ABIC conference in Rotorua this week […]
Continue readingFood security – How will we feed 9 billion people in 2050?
Global food supply will have to double by the middle of the century to feed the world’s burgeoning population, and […]
Continue readingFostering our emerging science communicators
At the recent Transit of Venus forum held in Gisborne the engaging and energetic discussions were overshadowed by one thing […]
Continue readingPodcast: Curiosity landing, Tongariro eruption and more…
Science Media Centre manager and Sciblogs editor Peter Griffin hosts this week’s Sciblogs podcast, with a special on the Curiosity […]
Continue readingTongariro eruption: Latest update
An eruption occurred at Tongariro at approximately 11:50 pm last night, (Monday August 6). GNS Science has issued an ash […]
Continue readingPlug pulled on Pacific Fibre – expert commentary
A group of high-profile New Zealand businessmen today abandoned efforts to build a second major undersea broadband cable linking New […]
Continue readingCancer – it’s more than just numbers
Cancer continues to kill more New Zealanders than any other cause of death, even though death rates for the illness […]
Continue readingAlgal blooms re-evaluated for carbon capture
Northern hemisphere researchers who put tonnes of iron into the Southern Ocean say it not only triggered a massive algal […]
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