NIWA has released its next 3-month outlook: July – September 2009. The original can be found here, and is reproduced […]
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A round-up of comment from experts on breaking stories and ongoing issues in science and technology.
1969 and Apollo 11 – a retrospective
The 40th anniversary of humanity’s first steps on the moon is here, and the event is inspiring commentary all over […]
Continue readingLatest evidence on folic acid shows no increased cancer risk
Public debate is continuing over New Zealand and Australia’s plan to require bread manufacturers to fortify their products with folic […]
Continue reading‘Ant mega-colony takes over world’ – headlines mostly hype, says expert
Research reported online last week on BBC Earth News asserts that the vast numbers of invasive Argentine ants living in […]
Continue readingAusSMC: Discovery of first large Australian dinosaurs in 28 years
New research published in PLoS ONE today (Fri 3 July) describes the remains of three new species of dinosaur: two […]
Continue readingRemembering Joan Wiffen, New Zealand’s ‘Dinosaur lady’
Dr James Crampton, paleontologist and programme leader at GNS Science, comments: “I guess for me, her story is a wonderful […]
Continue readingExperts on 60 Minutes artificial food colouring piece
A report by TV3’s 60 Minutes this week on the effects of artificial food colouring (‘Off Colour’, Monday 29 June), […]
Continue readingClimate report urges Britain to prepare for hotter future
The UK Climate Projections 2009 report released this week suggests that Britain needs to begin planning for severe flooding and […]
Continue readingExperts on Queensland death following Tasering (updated)
A man who died after being Tasered by police in north Queensland is the second person to die in Australia […]
Continue readingWHO on swine flu: “We’re all in this together”
Overnight the World Health Organisation raised the status of the A(H1N1) virus to phase 6 and is now officially treating […]
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