The silly season is over and the country’s newsroom’s are starting to fill up again with (ahem) enthusiastic and refreshed […]
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Controversy over ‘fat tax’
We are in the grips of an obesity epidemic here in New Zealand, with one in three adults now overweight […]
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 […]
Continue readingThe state of science journalism in New Zealand
If you’re a journalist you’ll be glad to have seen the back of 2008, the year in which the gradual […]
Continue readingHow your friends can make you fat, happy and smoke-free!
New Scientist‘s cover story this week looks at some fascinating social research under way that suggests moods, attitudes, behaviours can […]
Continue reading2008 ends in climate change media confusion
The Dominion Post continued its climate change sceptic-friendly run of articles today with a re-print of Daily Telegraph writer Christopher […]
Continue readingNZ methane mitigation research in New Scientist
The current issue of New Scientist features an interesting article which draws on research underway in New Zealand and highlights […]
Continue readingBiodiversity – how much remains to be discovered?
For more than 200 years, countless scientists have devoted themselves to the task of elaborating and cataloguing in minute detail […]
Continue readingKAREN funding shortfall feared, FRST lays out its cards
As Computerworld reports today, science minister Dr Wayne Mapp’s briefing notes have flagged potential problems at the Government-funded high-speed research […]
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 […]
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