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The ‘Entrepreneurial Universities’ initiative will aim to bring 15 – 20 world-leading researchers to New Zealand, with our universities bidding […]
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HIV infection rates globally have failed to significantly decline in ten years, with over 70 countries actually increasing, reveals new […]
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A diet high in fatty acids from oily fish might reduce the risk of dying from bowel cancer, but experts […]
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Reclaimed land in South Dunedin might be sinking faster than other areas, GNS Science researchers have found, coinciding with a […]
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On Friday, the Government released a discussion paper to identify the areas of scientific knowledge needed to support decision-making for […]
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Dunedin has once again played host to the International Science Festival, which comes to town every two years bringing scientists […]
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New Zealand’s conservation and environmental science aims are to be strengthened, thanks to a newly released public discussion paper that […]
Continue readingLimits to brain scanning technology – Prof Donna Rose Addis
A proposal to test how reliable brain scans could be in detecting whether suspects knew anything about a crime goes […]
Continue readingAustralia AIDS free? – In the News
Australian officials made headlines this week when they announced that AIDS was no longer an epidemic in their country, but […]
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