Bill Reichert, Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, talks from his (deep) experience with venture capital funding and entrepreneurship about […]
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Mother’s diet has life-long implications for children
A mother’s diet before and during pregnancy can help determine when a daughter reaches puberty and her own reproductive capacity […]
Continue readingDominion Post: NZ to wait and see on swine flu vaccine
An article in the Dominion Post by Ruth Hill looking at the New Zealand Government’s planned approach to a vaccination […]
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An investigation by the Sunday Star Time‘s reporter Kim Knight into the importation into New Zealand from Malaysia and Indonesia […]
Continue readingThe threat to science publishing
The Open Access (OA) movement has been around since the 1990s – not surprising, as one of its principal tenets […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Embargoes in science reporting – Friend or foe?
An SMC recording made at the World Conference of Science Journalists held in London in late June. The recording is […]
Continue readingHerald on Sunday: Time to declare outright war on P
Broadcaster and commentator Paul Holmes responding to Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman’s suggestion that over-the-counter sale of drugs […]
Continue readingSouthland Times: Govt jumps on board SKA bid
A piece in the Southland Times on the Government’s official support of Australia’s big to host the Square Kilometre Array. […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Hungry bugs could slash animal-gas danger
In the fight to reduce New Zealand’s methane emissions, some tiny organisms could be major contenders. Eloise Gibson of the […]
Continue readingStuff Technology: Google ‘evangelist’ sees web, brain implant link
Vint Cerf, vice-president of Google, is visiting New Zealand to speak at a conference on the looming lack of web […]
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