An unusually large aftershock from the September 4 Darfield earthquake is almost certainly to blame for the devastating quake that […]
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Experts on major quake near Christchurch
UPDATED 11.30PM: The Prime Minister John key said this evening that the confirmed death toll resulting from today’s 6.3 magnitude […]
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At 12:51pm today, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch. 5km deep and 10km south-east of the city, it is being […]
Continue reading‘Running out of IP addresses’: the facts
A number of articles have appeared in the press recently about the world having almost run out of IP addresses […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Anthony Doesburg – Broking a marriage of business and academia
Anthony Doesburg writes about a recent Auckland event bringing universities and businesspeople together to showcase university R&D. Sir Ray Avery, […]
Continue readingDom Post: Animal death toll ends cloning trials
Kiran Chug writes in the Dominion Post about AgResearch ending its cloning trials, due to the death rates of laboratory […]
Continue readingWhy science communication is vital
At this morning’s SCANZ conference in Auckland, the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, gave a speech about […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: Kepler launch, when science stories go bad, SMC is hiring
Spacecraft’s progress tracked from NZ The Johannes Kepler unmanned spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station after […]
Continue readingExperts on New Zealand Herald coverage of Liggins Institute research
Research co-author Dr Deborah M Sloboda, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Liggins Institute and Deputy Director, National Research Centre for Growth […]
Continue readingExpert reaction to paper on floods and climate warming
UK/CANADA SMC: Expert reaction to Nature Letters ‘Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes’, Seung-Ki Min et al., and ‘Anthropogenic greenhouse […]
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