An investigation by the Sunday Star Time‘s reporter Kim Knight into the importation into New Zealand from Malaysia and Indonesia […]
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The threat to science publishing
The Open Access (OA) movement has been around since the 1990s – not surprising, as one of its principal tenets […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Embargoes in science reporting – Friend or foe?
An SMC recording made at the World Conference of Science Journalists held in London in late June. The recording is […]
Continue readingHerald on Sunday: Time to declare outright war on P
Broadcaster and commentator Paul Holmes responding to Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman’s suggestion that over-the-counter sale of drugs […]
Continue readingSouthland Times: Govt jumps on board SKA bid
A piece in the Southland Times on the Government’s official support of Australia’s big to host the Square Kilometre Array. […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Hungry bugs could slash animal-gas danger
In the fight to reduce New Zealand’s methane emissions, some tiny organisms could be major contenders. Eloise Gibson of the […]
Continue readingStuff Technology: Google ‘evangelist’ sees web, brain implant link
Vint Cerf, vice-president of Google, is visiting New Zealand to speak at a conference on the looming lack of web […]
Continue readingNZ Herald:Waste plastics pose toxic threat in oceans
Steve Connor of the New Zealand Herald writes about the newest threat posed to our oceans: the chemicals produced when […]
Continue readingPODCAST: IPCC Chairman and Sir David King on negotiating a climate pact
The latest podcast in the series the SMC recorded at the World Conference of Science journalists in late June in […]
Continue readingDominion Post: Stretching international boundaries
An opinion piece by science writer Marilyn Head, looking at the joint Australian-New Zealand bid for the Square Kilometre Array […]
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