Kiran Chug reported in today’s Dominion Post on a recent workshop run by the Royal Society covering geo-engineering techniques that […]
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Cliff-scanning laser at work in Christchurch
Three-dimensional laser scans of the shattered cliff faces of Christchurch’s seaside suburbs are helping scientists work out if any more […]
Continue readingKiwi scientists to UN: Top 5 Priorities for Health
A review article published in the Lancet today puts forward health priorities aimed at tackling some of the worlds biggest […]
Continue readingReport on kiwi science education released
Sir Peter Gluckman, Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, today released his much-awaited report on the state of science […]
Continue readingMedia coverage: Tsunami warning too costly
A Sunday Star Times article by Lois Cairns looking at patches in coverage of tsunami warning gauges in the South […]
Continue readingMedia Coverage: “Enhanced” water given a serve
An article in the Sunday Star Times examining claims about the nutritional value of vitamin water. An excerpt: (read in […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Climate Futures forum – How should scientists communicate on climate?
In a session at this week’s Climate futures: Pathways for society forum in Wellington, a panel of science writers and journalists […]
Continue readingExperts respond: More comments on Fukushima power plant and iodine-131
Efforts to control the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Nuclear powerplant in Japan have led to the release of radioactive […]
Continue readingExpert on links between major earthquakes
A paper published this week in Nature Geoscience reviewed 30 years of earthquake records and concluded that large earthquakes do […]
Continue readingMedia Coverage: Ant-dropping wasps causing a buzz
Previously unheard-of wasp behaviour documented by Victoria University scientists has gained major media coverage both in New Zealand and overseas. […]
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