Maritime New Zealand continues to lead an effort to stabilise the stranded cargo ship Rena, but has been hampered by […]
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Rena: experts on oil dispersants and natural breakdown
UPDATE: Winds now pushing oil onto the Bay of Plenty coast could turn offshore on Thursday, forecasters say. State science […]
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The grounding of the Rena container ship on the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty poses a substantial environmental […]
Continue readingWild GM Canola in United States
American research has shown that genetically modified canola plants grow outside of defined cultivation areas and that the plant’s modified […]
Continue readingMarsden Fund recipients announced
Glaciers, neurobiology, Maori TV and algebra are just a few of the subjects to explored by the recipients of this […]
Continue readingNiwa scientists map an online atlas for climate change
Two of NIWA’s principal scientists have launched a “primer” for their proposal to create a New Zealand Climate Change Atlas […]
Continue readingNobel Prize for Chemistry – experts respond
Israeli physicist Daniel Shechtman was last night awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his discovery of “quasicrystals” in metals […]
Continue readingExperts on use of cloning to make human stem cells
In a world first, scientists in the US have used a cloning technique to derive embryonic stem cells from human […]
Continue readingPublic funding decisions up to politicians – Carnaby
Decisions on where to invest more public money in research are “political”, says the head of the national science academy, […]
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