Researchers from the University of Otago have discovered that increasing red meat or fortified milk intake can combat falling iron […]
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Advancing 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 […]
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 […]
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