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In the News

A wrap-up of the science stories grabbing headlines here and internationally.

Dominion Post: NZ to wait and see on swine flu vaccine

In the News  |  Published: 25 August 200931 August 2009

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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Sunday Star Times: New Zealand’s hunger for palm kernel

In the News  |  Published: 24 August 200931 August 2009

An investigation by the Sunday Star Time‘s reporter Kim Knight into the importation into New Zealand from Malaysia and Indonesia […]

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Herald on Sunday: Time to declare outright war on P

In the News  |  Published: 24 August 200931 August 2009

Broadcaster and commentator Paul Holmes responding to Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman’s suggestion that over-the-counter sale of drugs […]

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Southland Times: Govt jumps on board SKA bid

In the News  |  Published: 24 August 200931 August 2009

A piece in the Southland Times on the Government’s official support of Australia’s big to host the Square Kilometre Array. […]

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NZ Herald: Hungry bugs could slash animal-gas danger

In the News  |  Published: 24 August 200924 August 2009

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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Stuff Technology: Google ‘evangelist’ sees web, brain implant link

In the News  |  Published: 24 August 200924 August 2009

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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NZ Herald:Waste plastics pose toxic threat in oceans

In the News  |  Published: 24 August 200924 August 2009

Steve Connor of the New Zealand Herald writes about the newest threat posed to our oceans: the chemicals produced when […]

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Dominion Post: Stretching international boundaries

In the News  |  Published: 21 August 200924 August 2009

An opinion piece by science writer Marilyn Head, looking at the joint Australian-New Zealand bid for the Square Kilometre Array […]

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NZ Herald: New Zealand to take lead in emissions initiative

In the News  |  Published: 21 August 200924 August 2009

An article in the New Zealand Herald by Fran O’Sullivan outlining a research-based global alliance to reduce agricultural emissions. An […]

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National: Measles kids face school ban

In the News  |  Published: 20 August 2009

The Ministry of Health has invoked previously-unused powers in order to deal with the threat of a measles epidemic. Its […]

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