Radio New Zealand’s Kim Hill interviews Amy Whitehead, overall runner-up of the MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year Awards 2009. […]
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Nitrous oxide – the big baddie of greenhouse gases
Nitrous oxide, which comes from natural and man-made sources, is the most damaging of greenhouse gases according to scientists who […]
Continue readingMacDiarmid: The best young scientists and their research
UPDATE: Click here to read about the MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year winners Tomorrow night will see the 2009 […]
Continue readingPODCAST: The Future of Innovation: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, and Emerging Technologies
Bill Reichert, Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, talks from his (deep) experience with venture capital funding and entrepreneurship about […]
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A mother’s diet before and during pregnancy can help determine when a daughter reaches puberty and her own reproductive capacity […]
Continue readingDominion Post: NZ to wait and see on swine flu vaccine
An article in the Dominion Post by Ruth Hill looking at the New Zealand Government’s planned approach to a vaccination […]
Continue readingSunday Star Times: New Zealand’s hunger for palm kernel
An investigation by the Sunday Star Time‘s reporter Kim Knight into the importation into New Zealand from Malaysia and Indonesia […]
Continue readingThe 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 […]
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