Yesterday, Living Cell Technologies announced the successful first implant of its DIABECELL® in Auckland. This is the first of 8 […]
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We hear the grumbles about the media all the time – from friends and family, colleagues and the inevitable bloggers […]
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The New Zealand Government has followed through on a proposal, foreshadowed in August, to ban giving cough and cold medicines […]
Continue readingThe P problem – is banning pseudoephedrine the answer?
The Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, has been tasked with finding ways to fight New Zealand’s worsening methamphetamine […]
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Hobart-born scientist, Dr Elizabeth Blackburn is one of three scientists to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for […]
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Kay Blundell of the Dominion Post reports on the positive effects of experimental stem cell treatment on a severely disabled […]
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Dr Chris de Freitas writes in the New Zealand Herald about the dangers of being unprepared for major natural events. […]
Continue readingODT: Joint Force Robotics
An opinion piece in the Otago Daily Times talks about the growing sophistication of warfare robotics, and the hope of […]
Continue readingNZ Herald/AP: Gas mask bra among Ig Nobel prize winning ideas
The winners of the annual Ig Nobel prize have been announced, and include amongst them the inventor of a bra […]
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