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Physicist Sir Paul Callaghan’s high public profile has meant the country has taken a genuine interest in his terminal colon […]
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Waikato University researcher Nicky Cameron has proven that new technology could be used to help pin down the origins of […]
Continue readingNZ women may face similar issues to USA court case
About 600 New Zealand women — and potentially as many as 1000 to 2000 — prescribed a synthetic estrogen decades […]
Continue readingNZ research included in meningococcal B universal vaccine
The MeNZB vaccine developed to control New Zealand’s meningococcal B epidemic in 2004-5 has helped researchers to create another, more […]
Continue readingNZ caffeine toxicity calls include worries about pets
Not only humans have trouble with overdosing on caffeine — New Zealand’s National Poisons Centre has had five calls about […]
Continue readingExperts divided on ‘Million Women’ HRT study
A new review has cast doubt on the findings of a large study which identified a link between hormone replacement […]
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New Zealand researchers are looking at two important marine species, snapper and dolphins, in the wake of ground-breaking lab-based research […]
Continue readingCopyright hits psychological boundary
An American university has filed a lawsuit against a New Zealand hypnotherapist for breach of copyright after he published what […]
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Joseph Gelfer, Adjunct Research Associate, School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, picks apart the 2012 apocalypse theory […]
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