In the fight to reduce New Zealand’s methane emissions, some tiny organisms could be major contenders. Eloise Gibson of the […]
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Vint Cerf, vice-president of Google, is visiting New Zealand to speak at a conference on the looming lack of web […]
Continue readingNZ Herald:Waste plastics pose toxic threat in oceans
Steve Connor of the New Zealand Herald writes about the newest threat posed to our oceans: the chemicals produced when […]
Continue readingPODCAST: IPCC Chairman and Sir David King on negotiating a climate pact
The latest podcast in the series the SMC recorded at the World Conference of Science journalists in late June in […]
Continue readingDominion Post: Stretching international boundaries
An opinion piece by science writer Marilyn Head, looking at the joint Australian-New Zealand bid for the Square Kilometre Array […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: New Zealand to take lead in emissions initiative
An article in the New Zealand Herald by Fran O’Sullivan outlining a research-based global alliance to reduce agricultural emissions. An […]
Continue readingJames Fairbairn: The importance of being informed
James Fairbairn writes in ScienceAlert about the importance to each of us of being able to make an informed decision […]
Continue readingNational: Measles kids face school ban
The Ministry of Health has invoked previously-unused powers in order to deal with the threat of a measles epidemic. Its […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: NZ bugs promise unique sip
Over 100 strains of unique wine yeasts found only in New Zealand might help local winemakers establish wines which are […]
Continue readingWeighing the risks and benefits of the HPV vaccine
Research published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association gives some fairly compelling, if not conclusive evidence that […]
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