The pros and cons of using 1080 Sunday will see a series of rallies held nationwide to protest aerial drops […]
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Newsletter Digest: Climate science, NZ in Nature & the Nutt affair
SMC Climate science briefing Confused by the avalanche of climate science papers that have emerged this year? Need an update […]
Continue readingCanadian SMC about to get off the ground
The Science Media Centre of Canada is most likely the next branch of the SMC network to open for business, […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: $1 million Science prizes, Folic acid, and the 3 Rs
PM dishes up $1 million in prizes The most lucrative prize for science ever offered in New Zealand has been […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: Biowaste and nanotech
When scientists ask: is it safe? Biowaste – it is being applied to agricultural land all over the world to […]
Continue readingNewsletter digest: biowaste, COP15 and SCANZ
Biowaste: Save our soils? It is easy to forget that New Zealand’s wealth is underpinned by the top 15 centimetres […]
Continue readingWhy don’t Kiwis trust the media?
We hear the grumbles about the media all the time – from friends and family, colleagues and the inevitable bloggers […]
Continue readingScience reporting: Goldacre vs Drayson
Last night in London, Dr Ben Goldacre debated with Lord Drayson the state of science reporting in Britain. Dr Ben […]
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 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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