Five years on from Operation Waiheke, the government’s response to a foot and mouth outbreak on Waiheke Island that turned […]
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Elevated trans fats in dairy supply may be linked to health risk
New Zealand Herald’s Chris Barton investigates new evidence of palm kernel-derived trans fats in New Zealand dairy products and their […]
Continue readingAusSMC: Light drinking during pregnancy fails to affect child development – experts respond
AusSMC: UK research has found light drinking during pregnancy does not harm a young child’s behavioral or intellectual development. The […]
Continue readingIs light drinking during pregnancy okay? Experts respond
UPDATED 4PM: New research drawing on data from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study, a large study tracking the long term […]
Continue readingLandmark ‘Census of Marine Life’ effort culminates today
The first-ever global Census of Marine Life will officially conclude today at a news conference in London, after a decade […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: IgNobels, Kiwi attitudes to science, SciBlogs anniversary
What do Kiwis think of science? Next week will see the launch of a study that looks at the public’s […]
Continue reading‘Dirty Weather’ Diaries of Reverend Davis — rescuing lost climate data from the past
ONLINE MEDIA BRIEFING: THUR 30 September, 1:30 pm (NZT) — Weather data salvaged from Northland missionary diaries and Australian First […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: Canadian SMC, diabetes drug suspended, whooping cough
SMC network expands to Canada Monday sees the launch of the Canadian Science Media Centre, representing the SMC network’s first […]
Continue readingLight trap for single atom devised
University of Otago physicists have found a way to trap a single atom, using a clever technique to circumvent the […]
Continue readingExpert reaction to Nature paper on sea surface temperature
SMC UK: New research on the cooling of the Earth’s surface that occurred in the 1970s suggests that the culprit […]
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