GNS Scientists comment on yesterday’s earthquake activity near Vanuatu, whether the earthquakes are in any way linked to last week’s […]
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A round-up of comment from experts on breaking stories and ongoing issues in science and technology.
PM 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 […]
Continue readingFirst major test of NZ tsunami gauge network
Several dozen people are dead in the Samoan islands following a magnitude 8.3 earthquake this morning that was centred 205 […]
Continue readingUK SMC: Experts react to news of an HIV vaccine that works
For the first time ever, an AIDS vaccine protected people from infection with the human immunodeficency virus, lowering the risk […]
Continue readingGNS scientist Brad Field on the promise of carbon capture and storage
Stuart Haszeldine’s article in Science this week identifies the main issues regarding the implementation of capture and underground storage of […]
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