[this link has been updated, to read Dr Nicola Gaston’s blog on science and democracy, click here] New Zealand is […]
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The United Nations Climate Summit, concluding in New York this week, has put climate policy firmly back on the political agenda. […]
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Using paracetamol, one of the mainstays of over-the-counter pain relief, during pregnancy has been linked to the development of Attention […]
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Antibiotic resistance and 3D printing — and the scientists who study them — garnered prime-time screen time on the latest episodes of TV3’s current affairs […]
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Dame Anne Salmond, patron of the Te Awaroa 1000 Rivers Project, writes about the country’s ‘blue economy’ in the New […]
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Carbon dioxide emissions, the main contributor to global warming, are set to rise again in 2014 – reaching a record […]
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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has voted in favour of a resolution restricting Japan’s scientific whaling program, but a representative […]
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Australian and New Zealand researchers are teaming up to tackle the challenge of developing a vaccine for rheumatic fever. The […]
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A new study published in Nature suggests that consuming commonly used artificial sweeteners may actually increase the body’s post-meal uptake of […]
Continue readingMBIE funding for New Zealand science
The government has announced the recipients of the 2014 Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment funding round, injecting $139 million […]
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