As descendants of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton last week trekked to the South Pole to commemorate the 100th anniversary of […]
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Obama will “restore science to its rightful place”
Barack Obama may have looked slightly confused today as he fluffed his lines during his swearing in ceremony in Washington […]
Continue readingMore than 2 hours of screen time a day can damage children
A new Australian study on 2,570 New South Wales school children aged 11 to 15 has found that children who […]
Continue readingThe Week In Science: New reseach and hot issues – to Jan 22
The silly season is over and the country’s newsroom’s are starting to fill up again with (ahem) enthusiastic and refreshed […]
Continue readingControversy over ‘fat tax’
We are in the grips of an obesity epidemic here in New Zealand, with one in three adults now overweight […]
Continue readingWHO surgical safety checklist – NEJM paper
The New England Journal of Medicine paper on the results of trials of implementing guidelines for surgery is now available […]
Continue readingCrocodiles in Canada, palm trees at the poles
55 million years ago, the Earth was a much warmer place than it is today. Shockingly warm, in fact. And […]
Continue reading700 year-old Maori house discovered
From The Press: Otago University archaeologists have identified what they believe to be the site of a 700-year-old dwelling on […]
Continue readingScientists in Wellington to discuss historic climate change
Scientists from around the world are gathering in Wellington today for a conference looking at how evidence of historic climate […]
Continue readingUK stem cell research falters as US looks to give green light
Today’s Independent newspaper in Britain carries the front page news that stem cell research focusing on controversial human-animal hybrid cloning […]
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