Following the announcement last week of the Prime Minister’s action plan on methamphetamine, some confusion has arisen over how tightly […]
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A round-up of comment from experts on breaking stories and ongoing issues in science and technology.
Red meat and fortified milk combat toddler anaemia
Researchers from the University of Otago have discovered that increasing red meat or fortified milk intake can combat falling iron […]
Continue readingAdvancing nanotech, despite uncertainties
Nanotechnology is a rapidly advancing field, with hundreds of products containing nanomaterials already on the shelves and largely unknown health […]
Continue readingNZ scientists comment on earthquakes near Vanuatu
GNS Scientists comment on yesterday’s earthquake activity near Vanuatu, whether the earthquakes are in any way linked to last week’s […]
Continue readingPM announces strict pseudoephedrine controls
Prime Minister John Key announced a new Government action plan on methamphetamine today, which includes plans to reclassify pseudoephedrine (a […]
Continue readingPseudoephedrine to be hospital prescription-only
The Government has followed up the recommendation of the Chief Science Advisor Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, signaling that it will […]
Continue readingCough and cold medicine out for under six year-olds
The New Zealand Government has followed through on a proposal, foreshadowed in August, to ban giving cough and cold medicines […]
Continue readingAustralian wins Nobel Prize
Hobart-born scientist, Dr Elizabeth Blackburn is one of three scientists to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for […]
Continue readingRevised ETS likely to encourage forestry and reduce emissions
Associate Professor Euan G. Mason, from School of Forestry, University of Canterbury, and Member of the New Zealand Royal Society, […]
Continue readingDepth of quake meant Sumatra avoided tsunami
Following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in the Samoan islands, an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra has also caused […]
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