New Zealand’s electricity industry and regulators could usefully collaborate with academic researchers on randomised testing to provide insights into household […]
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Kiwi scientist on mega-organism ancestor research
Life was born complex, with the primordial ocean acting as a kind of genetic swap-shop over hundreds of millions of […]
Continue readingEuthanasia in New Zealand – expert views
Record numbers of suicides among elderly people and controversies such as the sentencing of academic Sean Davison for “counseling and […]
Continue readingExperts on recommendation to legalise euthanasia in Canada
Last week, the Royal Society of Canada released the final report of their expert panel on end-of-life decision making. The […]
Continue readingFuther climate research emails released – experts respond
The apparent release of further email correspondence between climate researchers based at the University of East Anglia is believed to […]
Continue readingNZ faces moral obligations as climate changes hit – scientist
New Zealand may initially get off relatively lightly as the world increasingly experiences the consequences of climate change, but will still […]
Continue readingIf the world drops Kyoto, what will New Zealand do?
In the early hours of Saturday morning the UN’s climate change body will release a report that has been described […]
Continue readingLower drinking age linked to higher longterm harm
American researchers investigating the longterm impacts of a lower legal drinking age in some US states say the evidence points […]
Continue readingPossible association between the pill and prostate cancer
New research shows that in countries with higher contraceptive pill use by women, men have higher rates of prostate cancer. […]
Continue readingCaptive breeding of black rhino not efficient – NZ researcher
The new International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warning that the wild black rhinoceros sub-species (Diceros bicornis longipes) is […]
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