New Zealand scientists are among an international group of researchers who have sequenced the cow genome in its entirety and […]
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Fears allayed about massive methane burp
A major spike in the powerful greenhouse gas methane nearly 12,000 years ago wasn’t the result of a catastrophic release […]
Continue readingConcerns about advice from staff in health food stores
A study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today raises concerns about advice being given by people working in […]
Continue readingA scientific project of epic proportions – the SKA
It’ll be one of the biggest scientific projects since the Large Hadron Collider was constructed beneath the Franco-Swiss border and […]
Continue readingSoil scientist – commercialisation push is disastrous
BY DOUG EDMEADES Published today in AUSTRALASIAN SCIENCE Business management and the profit motive have put science in a strait-jacket, […]
Continue readingHuman cloning work shows a “complete lack of responsibility”
Fertility expert Panayiotis Zavos, founder of the Zavos Organization based in Lexington, Kentucky has renewed controversy about human cloning with […]
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Continue readingLow vitamin intake linked to asthma – BMJ
A low intake of vitamins A and C could raise the risk of asthma, a team which reviewed 40 studies […]
Continue readingFrom the RSNZ journals: Road kill, parasites, plant invasion
A number of papers appearing in journals published by the Royal Society of New Zealand are now available online and […]
Continue readingThe Kyoto numbers – mixed reaction to mixed messages
The surprising news in the latest Ministry for the Environment summary of our Kyoto Protocol unit position, which puts us […]
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