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Kiwi ‘Party Animal’ physicist awarded Einstein Medal

In the News  |  Published: 20 December 201220 December 2012

A New Zealand scientist has been awarded a prestigious medal in recognition of his furthering the work of Albert Einstein. […]

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Nobel Prize for Physics – experts respond

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 10 October 201210 October 2012

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche and David J. Winelan. The Laureates independently invented […]

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Kiwi research opposes ‘opposites attract’ rule

In the News  |  Published: 24 May 201224 May 2012

“Everything you thought you knew about electrostatics is probably wrong”  declares the first line of a Nature News article examining […]

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12 Questions for Sir Paul – NZ Herald

Reflections on Science  |  Published: 29 February 201229 February 2012

For the NZ Herald Online, Sarah Daniell poses 12 questions to well-known Physicist Sir Paul Callaghan. An excerpt (read in […]

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Science and Santa

Reflections on Science  |  Published: 23 December 201123 December 2011

Roger Highfield, UK science writer and author of The Physics of Christmas, talks to Radio New Zealand’s Kathryn Ryan about […]

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Astrophysicists awarded Nobel Prize

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 05 October 201105 October 2011

The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a group of astronomers whose research revealed that the universe is […]

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Speed camera needed for neutrinos?

Expert Reactions, In the News  |  Published: 23 September 201126 September 2011

Physicists have said – in a paper and in a seminar at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) – […]

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Sunday Star Times: Mysteries of our universe

Reflections on Science  |  Published: 13 December 2010

Adam Dudding writes in the Sunday Star Times about New Zealand scientist Peter Schwerdtfeger, who was recently awarded the prestigious […]

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TVNZ/One News: Scientists record music of the sun

In the News  |  Published: 22 June 201011 December 2024

British scientists say that the sun’s coronal loops vibrate like the strings of a guitar, and claim that they have […]

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NZ Herald: ‘Remarkable’ space scientist won international acclaim

In the News  |  Published: 18 March 2010

Phoebe Falconer writes in the New Zealand Herald about the groundbreaking research of Sir Ian Axford, who died recently aged […]

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