The lead author of research which revealed New Zealand’s dramatic rise in infectious disease talks with Nine to Noon’s Kathryn […]
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Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
Mega ministry merger – science leaders respond
A new ministry, announced today, will absorb the functions of the Ministry of Economic Development, the Department of Labour, the […]
Continue readingSynthetic biology’s future
A symposium on the future of synthetic biology (PDF) — designing and building new life forms from the ground up — […]
Continue readingBeards are for men, but leave women cold – study
A Wellington anthropologist whose doctoral thesis revived Charles Darwin’s theory that men evolved beards as a result of sexual selection […]
Continue reading12 Questions for Sir Paul – NZ Herald
For the NZ Herald Online, Sarah Daniell poses 12 questions to well-known Physicist Sir Paul Callaghan. An excerpt (read in […]
Continue readingSteven Joyce on Radio NZ
The Hon Steven Joyce, the first politician to hold the economic development, science and innovation and tertiary education portfolios simultaneously, […]
Continue readingBad headlines and science journalism
Director of the UK Science Media Centre, Fiona Fox, discusses the interplay between universities, journalists and editors in the wake […]
Continue readingThe SKA bid – an insider’s perspective
Lisa Harvey-Smith, a scientist working for the CSIRO in Australia, writes about the impending decision on the Square Kilometre Array […]
Continue readingProf Marc Wilson on the End of the World
Associate Professor Marc Wilson, from the Department of Psychology, Victoria University, talked to TVNZ’s Breakfast show about the Mayan calendar, […]
Continue readingDr Mike Joy on ‘Clean & Green’ NZ
Dr Mike Joy, Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Science at Massey University, chastises New Zealand for not walking the […]
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