The Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) has revoked approvals for the insecticide endosulfan, and has prohibited its importation, manufacture and […]
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Australia’s emission trading scheme plans
News wrap: Reuters: Q+A: What are Australia’s carbon trading plans? The Australian: $1.4bn to soften pain of carbon trading scheme […]
Continue readingBriefing papers reveal snapshot of CRIs’ financial health
The new minister for research, science and technology, Dr Wayne Mapp, wasn’t joking earlier in the month when he said […]
Continue readingNew research shows “exercise on prescription” works
A New Zealand study by Dr Beverley Lawton and colleagues, from the University of Otago, Wellington, has been published today […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Coverage of genetic modification in the NZ media
How has the New Zealand media approached the touchy issue of genetic modification? By marginalising interest groups pointing out the […]
Continue readingBlackman: Humanity strand of Rutherford legacy
Dr Allan Blackman, associate professor in the chemistry department at the University of Otago, write’s about Sir Ernest Rutherford’s support […]
Continue readingSalmon – a great source of selenium
Researchers at Massey University have compared a group of healthy volunteers who ate a 120g portion of salmon twice a […]
Continue readingMedia Tracker: Election drives science coverage in November
The SMC Media Tracker survey for November shows stories referencing the 12 keywords we track each month were up in […]
Continue readingScience and maths scores flatlined
Results of the 2006/2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) released today show that New Zealand school children […]
Continue readingEinstein, Darwin, Newton and…Rutherford
100 years ago — on 10 Dec 1908 — New Zealand’s most preeminent scientist, Ernest Rutherford, received the Nobel Prize […]
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