People who buy fake drugs on the internet supporting terrorism as well as risking their lives, according to the International […]
Continue readingBlog
Lovelock: One billion better than nine billion
It is a wonderfully philosophical and pragmatic 90 year-old James Lovelock who is interviewed in New Scientist this week. The […]
Continue readingDo embargoes make journalists lazy?
You know that feeling – its gone 7pm in the newsroom and you’ve still to hear back from the two […]
Continue readingSMC Heads-up: the coming week in science (to Jan 29)
Dear science reporters, Upcoming events, new research and SMC backgrounders and a taste of what might be on the news […]
Continue readingNew research on maternal diets and fetal health
Around the world, over recent decades, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity and associated diseases such as Type […]
Continue readingObama will “restore science to its rightful place”
Barack Obama may have looked slightly confused today as he fluffed his lines during his swearing in ceremony in Washington […]
Continue readingThe Week In Science: New reseach and hot issues – to Jan 22
The silly season is over and the country’s newsroom’s are starting to fill up again with (ahem) enthusiastic and refreshed […]
Continue readingControversy over ‘fat tax’
We are in the grips of an obesity epidemic here in New Zealand, with one in three adults now overweight […]
Continue readingUK stem cell research falters as US looks to give green light
Today’s Independent newspaper in Britain carries the front page news that stem cell research focusing on controversial human-animal hybrid cloning […]
Continue readingThe state of science journalism in New Zealand
If you’re a journalist you’ll be glad to have seen the back of 2008, the year in which the gradual […]
Continue reading