NIWA has published its climate outlook for the next three months (Dec – Feb): “El Niño strengthens, with conditions likely to […]
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Insect repellent linked to birth defects – UK and Aus experts respond
New research published in the BMJ’s Occupational and Environmental Medicine suggests the use of insect repellent during the first three […]
Continue readingAtea-1 blasts off
Yesterday, following a slight delay, Atea-1 took to the sky. The 6m tall rocket, developed by Auckland firm Rocket Lab […]
Continue readingTVNZ: GE weeds spread from containment glasshouse
A piece by TVNZ on MAF’s investigation of a potential GM-trial breach on the Lincoln campus of Crown Research Institute, […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Prof John Hamilton on inflammatory/auto-immune disease
Last Friday, Professor John Hamilton, from the University of Melbourne, gave a great talk entitled “Colony stimulating factors, macrophages and […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Chronic fatigue cause unlocked
Alice Neville of the New Zealand Herald reports that the previously-unknown cause of chronic fatigue syndrome has been found. Chronic […]
Continue readingDom Post: New Zealand scientists find new cancer drug
Ruth Hill of the Dominion Post reports on a new class of anti-cancer drugs, developed by New Zealand scientists from […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: A climate scandal, or is it just hot air?
Eloise Gibson of the New Zealand Herald writes about the recent ‘Climategate’ scandal, in which emails stolen from a leading […]
Continue readingDom Post: Kiwi scientist makes a twitter breakthrough
Kiran Chug writes about a new technique which is able to accurately estimate bird population size using microphone arrays. The […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Recession no bar to fossil fuel emissions
Eloise Gibson writes about a recent report which suggests that, while the global recession did impact greenhouse gas emissions a […]
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