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New Zealand farmers stand to gain $52 million over the next five years from scientific innovation which has given a […]
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Researchers in Antarctica have co-opted some unlikely assistants in their examination of microbial communities in the southern continent. Mummified seals, […]
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New Zealand science has made a key contribution to international research which has laid open the genetic history of sheep […]
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Climate scientists interested in how El Nino/La Nina weather patterns may interact with future global warming are expected to take […]
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A group of expert climate researchers has rounded robustly on 16 scientists who complained in the Wall Street Journal (No […]
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Lisa Harvey-Smith, a scientist working for the CSIRO in Australia, writes about the impending decision on the Square Kilometre Array […]
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In a ‘provocative’ commentary article, several scientists have called for sugar to be regulated as a harmful substance like alcohol […]
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