The new International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warning that the wild black rhinoceros sub-species (Diceros bicornis longipes) is […]
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SMC Heads-Up: Red List update, ancient astrolabe, NZAS Awards
Click below to read the latest Heads-Up newsletter from the Science Media Centre featuring commentary on the big science stories […]
Continue readingOld times … via New Zealand
A 14th century scientific instrument brought to New Zealand by a family emigrating from the north of England in the […]
Continue readingElection 2011 – SMC science Q&A with political parties
The Science Media Centre put questions on key science-related issues to the political parties ahead of the General Election scheduled […]
Continue readingSMC Heads-Up: Innovation overhaul, climate policy failure, fracking
Click below ot read the latest issue of the SNC Heads-Up – your guide to the science news and research […]
Continue readingPowering Innovation report – experts respond
The Government today released the findings of an independent report into high value manufacturing in New Zealand, outlining major changes […]
Continue readingFracking seen as likely trigger for minor quakes which hit Blackpool – report
A British report which found that fracking was the “highly probable” cause of two minor earthquakes in the Blackpool area […]
Continue readingExperts: South Island seismic risk needs re-evaluation
Scientists behind the first big compilation of research into the Christchurch earthquakes say the seismic risk to the whole of […]
Continue readingSMC Heads-up: 7 billion +, Labour’s pension plan, flying for emissions
In the latest Science Media Centre Heads-up newsletter we look at the World’s population reacing 7 billion, what demographers think […]
Continue readingFlights over NZ give clues to climate change gases
American scientists have completed years of research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic — via Christchurch — to produce […]
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