There’s always a certain cringe factor when we start talking about taking tissue or even whole organs from animals and […]
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Biofuels still the way to go
Professor David Harries, Director of the Centre for Excellence into Energy for Sustainable Transport at Australia’s Murdoch University & Curtin […]
Continue readingDrilling back in time in the name of climate science
Can looking at samples of five million year-old rock sediment tell us the consequences of warming the earth by pumping […]
Continue readingEmerging kiwi scientists awarded research fellowships
The Foundation for Research Science and Technology has announced this year’s recipients of its annual postdoctoral fellowships. Research topics for […]
Continue readingClimate science hands off to the politicians
The International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen wrapped up last week with a series of key messages it […]
Continue readingVitamin B12 and neural tube defects
A study published in the Pediatrics journal this month suggests that vitamin B12 may be an important nutrient in preventing […]
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AUT: Eradicating a cause of economic loss in New Zealand’s dairy industry is one of several key research areas for […]
Continue readingQueensland’s coast blighted by leaked oil – experts respond
Pelicans and turtles are among the animals suffering the effects of an oil spill from a cargo ship that has […]
Continue readingPeking Man’s age revised by 200,000 years
The bones of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus, commonly known as ‘Peking Man’, may be 200,000 years older than previously thought, according […]
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