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Living Cell Technologies Limited (ASX:LCT) today announced the appointment of Robert J. Beckman, Dr. Allan R. Goldberg and Philip N. Sussman, Managing Partners of The Channel Group, LLC (TCG), a New York based life science venture development and management ... More >>
The Bio Commerce Centre, Palmerston North’s technology commercialisation centre, has made two staff appointments. John Brandeis has been appointed Incubator Manager. Mr Brandeis has moved back to Palmerston North from Hawke’s Bay, where he established ... More >>
A New Zealand honey health science company and a German university have joined forces in a bid to set industry standards for the use of manuka honey products to heal wounds, overcome stomach and skin problems, and potentially in the fight against cancer. More >>
Temperature: Below average over much of the South Island, warmer in the north of the North Island • Rainfall: Below normal in the northeast of the South Island, above normal in the south of the South Island • Sunshine: Above average in many ... More >>
The eight women taking Pharmac to court over its decision to fund Herceptin trials for only 9 weeks instead of 12 months is a very clear indication of the increasing sense of injustice felt by women requiring breast cancer treatment, says New Zealand ... More >>
Anything you ever wanted to know about earthquakes, icy ecosystems, body imaging or the role of science in sport will be just a mouse-click away with the launch of a world-first Science Learning Hub, developed at the University of Waikato. More >>
If you are looking for eradication or even control of Didymo, then don't look to the Biosecurity Minister for help, says National's Biosecurity spokesman, Shane Ardern. More >>
On July 7 at 12 noon, the Earth is at its furthest point from the Sun (aphelion), on it’s year-long slightly elliptical orbit around the Sun. More >>
Health researchers working on a groundbreaking asthma study to determine whether and why children raised on farms have greater asthma resistance want another 600 pregnant women from the lower North Island. More >>
Victoria University of Wellington is to host a new interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Institute that will work with other New Zealand organisations. More >>
A clinical study conducted by sleep experts has found that a new Before-Bed Routine pioneered by Johnson & Johnson significantly improves infant sleep. Babies were not the only ones to benefit from the trial. Results showed that mothers reported a reduction ... More >>
Yesterday evening I tendered my resignation from the board of ICP Biotechnology Limited with immediate effect. Since resigning as Managing Director of ICPbio, a number of local and overseas parties have offered me a range of opportunities from development ... More >>
All eyes are on Emirates Team New Zealand. Hi-tech New Zealand companies and leading university departments have contributed to the years of research, testing and training behind the campaign. Find out about the science of sail design; what makes good ‘grinding’; ... More >>
The latest figures from Statistics New Zealand show that research spending is growing, which is very positive for our science sector, says Research, Science and Technology Minister, Steve Maharey. More >>
July 7 is Aotearoa Live – a day for New Zealanders to express their concern about climate change. More >>
AgResearch Chief Executive Dr Andrew West today announced the appointment of Dr Travis Glare as the Institute's new General Manager of Science Strategy. Dr Glare has been promoted from within AgResearch. He is currently Section Manager of Biocontrol, ... More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Wallace Chapman talks to Betty Martini, founder of Mission Possible International, about research that’s been done into Aspartame. More >>
Methyl bromide fumigation at ports around New Zealand needs urgent reassessment, following the Marlborough District Council’s refusal to require their Port Company to apply for resource consent to discharge the toxic gas to the Picton environment ... More >>
Robots are no longer a dream of the future, the technology to create them is now here, so bring your family to check out the latest robotic advances in MOTAT's July school holiday programme, RoboSpeak. More >>
Information is key to making decisions that protect the biodiversity of New Zealand's offshore areas More >>
A water science forum of scientists, regulators and agriculture leaders agreed today on a need to form working partnerships that lead to improved water quality, said Hugh Ritchie of Federated Farmers of New Zealand. More >>
MetService meteorologists have issued a heavy rain warning for Bay of Plenty and northern Gisborne. More >>
Are our native trees adding to or reducing New Zealand's carbon emissions? That's the question Rotorua scientists are hoping to answer with one of their current research projects. More >>
A donation of $1million to the University's Antarctic Research Centre by a Victoria alumnus will strengthen its research into the history and behaviour of the Antarctic ice sheet in the face of global warming. More >>
It’s a pleasure to be here to open the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology’s annual conference. I would also like to extend a welcome to the overseas speakers at this conference, and to students and recent food science graduates. More >>
The food industry is central to the New Zealand economy, and the forecast 27 per cent increase in the Fonterra pay out for the 2007/08 season is a great sign of things to come, says Research, Science and Technology Minister, Steve Maharey. More >>
NIWA’s 28-metre long research vessel Kaharoa, will spend the next month deploying high tech ocean-profiling floats in the mid-Pacific. The 28–30 day journey will take the crew of five in a loop from Wellington up towards French Polynesia then ... More >>
Auckland Zoo elephant Kashin has a mammoth plan these school holidays (30 June - 15 July) to help save her friends in the wild, but she needs help! More >>
No break will be offered after the cold southerly currently sweeping the country has passed. It seems still that the worst is yet to come. A front predicted by the NOAA weather model is forecast to travel up the country through late Thursday and ... More >>
Have you ever wished that your pears would keep fresh for longer? Well, scientists from Lincoln University have been trialling the use of aspirin, and, surprisingly it is showing potential to help with this problem. More >>
Groups ask U.S. Health and Environmental Agencies to investigate potential link between pathogenic fungus and introduced genetically engineered eucalyptus trees. More >>
Living Cell Technologies Ltd (ASX:LCT) is pleased to announce it has successfully transplanted the first of six type I (insulin dependent) diabetic patients in a world-first. More >>
The adoption of new rules in the EU allowing low level accidental GE contamination of organic food creates an economic opportunity for New Zealand to sell its organic produce in Europe as genuinely GE Free says the Green Party. More >>
EU acceptance of GE contamination in all crops, gives New Zealand a real opportunity and point of difference in the world as a GE Free crop producer, according to Soil & Health. More >>
The Hawke’s Bay Medical Research Foundation is pleased to announce it has made grants to the total value of $90,200 for medical research in the coming year. More >>
13 June 2007. Christchurch. - Teenage web entrepreneur Jasper Bryant-Greene is relaunching his successful photo printing site albumprints.co.nz with the help of local design company hairyLemon. More >>
The latest resource, Whare Uku, from Nga Pae o te Maramatanga and developed by Rautaki Ltd is being launched at Waipapa Marae by Te Ururoa Flavell, Maori Party MP, this Thursday. More >>
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) today called for better policies to conserve fish genetic resources and enhance global food security, warning of the adverse environmental and social impacts of failing to do so. “A lack of ... More >>
RDU Audio: Kate Gorgeous talked to Augie Auer once a month. She remembers meeting him when she was working at National Radio: "A good guy, it is a sad loss," Kate says. Here is her last interview with Augie dated from early May 2007. More >>
Production has begun on a $1.8 million (£600,000) film to feature scientists' perspectives of Earth’s changing climate, how and why it is happening and the options we have for responding. More >>
“ This sudden loss of Augie Auer is a colossal blow not just to his family and friends and his colleagues in the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, but to everyone in New Zealand who has a regard for truth and the role of science,” said Owen McShane, ... More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Wallace Chapman talks to the Prime Minister about carbon emissions, carbon neutral New Zealand businesses, and travel/export complexities... More >>
As the leaders of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in Germany hammered the final communiqué on climate change, half a world away, in the small Pacific island country of Tuvalu, Sialafaga Talua, a born and bred islander pondered her shaky future on the islands, ... More >>
The University’s Animal Welfare Science and Bioethics Centre has been named a collaborating centre of the OIE, the World Organisation for Animal Health, and will provide expert scientific, bioethical and educational advice for the OIE and its 169 member countries. ... More >>
Forget tying knots in string or leaving Post-it notes on the fridge – understanding the genetic basis of behaviour and memory in bees could help us understand how humans remember things, a New Zealand PhD student studying at The Australian National University ... More >>
Please find following information about two of our Scholar Awards for which applications close soon - one for New Zealand scholars to visit the US and another for institutions to host visiting American specialists. More >>
"The open admission by a climate scientist of the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Dr Jim Renwick, that his organisation achieves only 50 per cent accuracy in its climate forecasts, and that this is as good as any ... More >>
Latest results in from the field show that a tiny Irish wasp released early last year is hitting adult clover root weevils hard in the North Island. The AgResearch Biocontrol, Biosecurity and Bioprocessing team released the parasitic wasp from Ireland, ... More >>
A three-tonne buoy laden with scientific instruments is about to be deployed to collect vital information in Golden Bay. This is a joint project between the Tasman District Council and the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) with additional ... More >>
University of Otago researchers gained $28.6m in the latest Health Research Council (HRC) funding for research projects to improve the health of New Zealanders. More >>
The Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Steve Maharey, is welcoming the announcement of $59 million to fund key research into health issues that affect New Zealanders. More >>
The dazzling beauty of the Southern Hemisphere’s night sky is being captured in a new stamp series from New Zealand Post. The Southern Skies series celebrates five stars of the stars – the constellations the Southern Cross, Pleiades, Trifid Nebula, ... More >>
The Labour-led government is delivering the most substantial changes to the business environment in twenty years, which could change the entire landscape of research, says Research, Science and Technology Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
The University of Canterbury has stamped its mark on the latest philatelic offering from New Zealand Post. The set of five stamps, titled “Southern Skies”, was the brainchild of University of Canterbury astronomer Associate Professor Peter Cottrell ... More >>
When scientists of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Institute (Niwa) say that New Zealand’s Indian summer is likely to drag on into winter, there’s an equal chance, based on their past performance, that we are headed for a cold snap. ... More >>
The University of Auckland welcomes the Government’s decision to invest over $104 million in three Centres of Research Excellence hosted by the University. The University will host three of the seven CoREs - the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, ... More >>
The University of Otago’s academic leaders are frustrated and disappointed at the news the University will not be a home to a new Centre of Research Excellence. More >>
The treatment of serious disease will continue to be a focus for New Zealand with an additional six years of funding allocated to the Maurice Wilkins Centre. More >>
The Ministry for the Environment has taken three months to respond to questions raised about serious flaws in a scientific review that in the meantime has been used to justify ERMA approving a GE field-trial. More >>
The Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Steve Maharey, has outlined a new vision for the future development of research into the environment, to mark World Environment Day. More >>
Australian drug discovery company, Bionomics Limited (ASX: BNO), announced today that their latest findings indicate that BNC105 disrupts the vasculature in human prostate tumours grown in mice, expanding on its previously demonstrated preclinical ... More >>
New Zealand still has room for progress when it comes to facilitating the involvement of Maori communities in the management of their traditional coastal territories, a researcher from The Australian National University (ANU) argues. More >>
National Party Associate Agriculture Spokesman Nathan Guy says Biosecurity Minister Jim Anderton is hanging out to dry a group of farmers caught up in last year’s GM corn debacle. More >>
• Temperature: New Zealand’s warmest May in over 140 years of temperature measurements • Rainfall: Record low rainfall in the north and east, well above normal in Nelson • Soil moisture: Significant deficits in the east of the North Island, as well ... More >>
AgResearch Chief Executive Dr Andrew West today announced changes to the structure of the Crown Research Institute effective from 1 July, 2007. More >>
Senior secondary school students have the opportunity to test their chemistry knowledge and have fun at the 9th Annual New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Secondary Schools’ Chemistry Quiz, held at Victoria University this month. More >>
The Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Steve Maharey, is visiting AgResearch in Christchurch today to see innovative new wool fabrics developed by the Crown Research Institute (CRI). More >>
Three takahe are today being taken from Tiritiri Matangi destined for the Murchison Mountains in Fiordland, in a move aimed at increasing the takahe population as a whole. More >>
A Rotorua scientist is off to the United States in August to present her research at an international conference, after winning a prestigious Fulbright Travel Award. More >>
A new Vietnamese-New Zealand partnership that produces natural products from native medicinal plants has won a prestigious United Nation's award, with a support package that includes US$8000 to further develop the partnership. More >>
Medical research in New Zealand received a significant boost today, with the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research receiving a $120,000 donation from Ryman Healthcare. More >>
A former Crop & Food GE scientist, Dr Elvira Dommisse, said today that proper scrutiny by ERMA of evidence would have prioritised the need for food studies over fund-wasting field trials. More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Wallace Chapman talks to Malcolm Rands from Ecostore about the G.E testing approved for Crop & Food by ERMA. More >>
The appearance of a southern right whale in Wellington Harbour this week has coincided with a call for public support to help track their whereabouts. More >>
GE-Free NZ are seeking legal advice on a possible High Court challenge to ERMA's decision announced yesterday, to approve a 10-year trial of GE brassica. More >>
Greenpeace has condemned the Environmental Risk Management Authority's (ERMA) decision to approve a field test of GM Brassica. "ERMA's finding that risks to the environment are negligible flies in the face of all the scientific uncertainties," said Greenpeace ... More >>
Today’s Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) decision approving a Crop and Food application to field trial brassicas (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and forage kale) genetically engineered with a toxin derived from the bacterium Bacillus ... More >>
Leading business and public sector representatives have put their weight behind Victoria University's Faculty of Commerce & Administration as members of its new advisory board. More >>
The decision by ERMA to approve 10-years of field trials of GE brassica is a defeat for common sense and undermines the Authority's credibilty as a regulatory body. The decision excludes any consideration of "the future", effectively ring-fencing ... More >>
The Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA New Zealand) has approved an application by the New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research to field test genetically-modified Brassica in the Lincoln region. More >>
South Coast residents are invited to meet some of their more elusive neighbours and learn of plans to enhance their well being. More >>
Researchers from New Zealand and Australia have used mountains as gigantic 'dipsticks' to probe the frozen history of the world's largest ice sheet. The study by researchers at Victoria University of Wellington, Macquarie University in Sydney and the Australian ... More >>
The Save Happy Valley Coalition has laid a complaint with the Commerce Commission about deceptive and misleading conduct under section 9 of the Fair Trading Act after government-owned company Solid Energy claimed that the conservation status of the ... More >>
The National Party's Paul Hutchison has once gain shown his confusion and ignorance of how science funding is allocated, says Research, Science and Technology Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
Development of new Tb test for deer could mean huge potential savings for agriculture industry The current Tb skin test is estimated to cost the New Zealand deer industry alone over $300,000 a year in false positives. More >>
Labour’s mismanagement of science funding has left New Zealand’s top scientists out in the cold, says National’s Science spokesman, Dr Paul Hutchison. “The fact that scientists are missing out on millions of dollars of funding is a huge indictment ... More >>
The National Party's Paul Hutchison has once gain shown his confusion and ignorance of how science funding is allocated, says Research, Science and Technology Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
Today in Canberra, AgResearch signed a Heads of Agreement document with CSIRO Plant Industry, a division of Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). More >>
The parasitoid bio-control for the clover root weevil has rapidly gained a toe-hold in Nelson says AgResearch clover root weevil programme leader for the South Island Dr Craig Phillips. More >>
Marine geologists investigating the past behaviour and hazard risk of volcanoes in the Kermadec Arc, northeast of the Bay of Plenty, have discovered two new submarine volcanoes near Raoul Island. More >>
A Wintec based research project which aims to identify ways to improve student achievement in science and applied programmes is progressing well as it moves into its second year. More >>
Dr Suzie Greenhalgh has joined the Crown Research Institute Landcare Research as a senior economist. Her work will include helping develop market-based mechanisms for ecosystem services (the free environmental functions that nature provides). She ... More >>
The Labour-led government is to make improvements to New Zealand's standards and conformance infrastructure. "A reputable and trustworthy standards and conformance infrastructure is critical to New Zealand’s economic transformation and our international ... More >>
GE crops designed to survive toxic herbicides may increase people's exposure to chemicals that are now being linked to reproductive and endocrine problems. New research has just been published into the effects of glyphosate - one of the active ingredients ... More >>
Faikakai ngou'a, prepared mainly from taro leaves and cassava flour, with boiling coconut milk and sugar as a sauce (lolo), is a dessert prepared for special occasions by Tongans and other people living around the Pacific Basin. More >>
A Victoria University biotechnology research project that will test a range of bacterial enzymes with the potential for use in the delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs has been awarded more than $388,000 by the Cancer Society of New Zealand. More >>
As a weekend “horror crash” brings the media spotlight once again upon teenagers, Science Headlines talks to six New Zealand researchers about the teenage years – an entirely modern phenomenon. Find out why teenagers don’t wear seatbelts and ... More >>
June is an excellent month for viewing the planets. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible for all of the month. Mercury will be visible for all but the very end of the month. More >>
Research using listening devices has found that Hector’s dolphins are going into the inner reaches of Akaroa Harbour in autumn – a time of year when set netting is allowed there. More >>
1 Why is the R&D tax credit being introduced? The credit is intended to encourage New Zealand businesses to invest more in R&D, to innovate and develop improved products and processes. This is expected to have wider benefits for the New Zealand ... More >>
A $73.7 million funding increase for research, science and technology over the next four years, along with $34.6 million in reallocated funding, will focus on transforming the economy by improving business performance and sustainability, Research, Science ... More >>
The Labour-led government believes that New Zealand should aim to be the world's first truly sustainable and carbon neutral nation. Budget 2007 – and measures to be announced throughout the year – will accelerate New Zealand's progress toward ... More >>
Lincoln Ventures, a technology company owned by Lincoln University, plans to offer a revolutionary new device that will allow industrial and wastewater treatment plants to rapidly test toxicity levels in discharges and provide a new level of environmental ... More >>
AUT Postgrad Bharat Jamnadas writes: Maori and Pacific community leaders and entertainers feature in a “diplomatic” protest to Japan over plans to hunt 50 humpback whales next summer. The message was clear at an anti-whaling rally in New Zealand on Saturday ... More >>
A new product which targets thrips, an important pest of greenhouse crops throughout the world, is being launched in Spain this week (15 May). The product is a result of a research collaboration between scientists at Crown Research Institute Crop & ... More >>
Russian scientists have gone public with a warning to authorities that their research has revealed alarming effects from GE foods previously believed to be "safe". At a conference in Moscow results from research by scientists from Vavilov Agriculture ... More >>
Ian Wishart seems to be getting his retaliation in first this morning, slinging off, ironically, at "all those mentally-challenged commenters on other blogs who resort to ad hominem attacks on myself or Investigate." I'll try and be a little ... More >>
Business would support a target to cut carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2050, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says. More >>
If New Zealand is to achieve the Government’s stated aim of becoming a carbon neutral economy, it will need many more scientists investigating ways of reducing the carbon footprint of agriculture and other economic activities in this country, says AgResearch ... More >>
Obesity is the most important modifiable risk factor in the development of Type 2 diabetes. A team from the University of Otago, Wellington, led by Endocrinologist Dr Jeremy Krebs, is launching a $1.4 million Health Research Council funded study ... More >>
New Zealand scientists have taken an important step in developing a new anti-inflammatory drug to relieve millions of gout sufferers. More >>
Press release 10-May-2007, Lincoln Ventures, Christchurch, NZ: Lincoln Ventures, a technology company owned by Lincoln University, plans to offer a revolutionary new device that will allow industrial and wastewater treatment plants to rapidly ... More >>
The landmark GARDASIL clinical trials FUTURE I and FUTURE II were published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) today. These clinical trials show that GARDASIL, the world’s first cervical cancer vaccine, provides significant and sustained protection ... More >>
U.S. sites for Glypromate® Phase 3 trial to be initiated this month * All sites selected and all drug manufacture completed for Phase 3 trial * All management and logistical resources in place for the Phase 3 trial * Phase 3 trial estimated to ... More >>
University of Auckland engineering student Emily Voyde is embarking on a three year study to find the most suitable materials to use in ‘green roofs’ in Auckland City. More >>
Government’s announcement today of a project to facilitate research and innovation around new aquaculture species and technologies in both existing and new aquaculture space has met with industry approval, says chief executive Mike Burrell of the new ... More >>
Video: AMP Scholarship winners talk about what the scheme has meant to them. Scoop will webcast one winner's account per week un til June 30. This week we feature sports physician, Rawiri Durie. Details of the Scholarship scheme can be accessed by visiting ... More >>
How the mysterious agricultural techniques of an ancient Amazonian civilization could help New Zealand farming to become more competitive. More >>
"The Auckland and Waitakere mayors have fallen into the carbon trap laid by the likes of the Green Party and Greenpeace, in adding their voices to the unproven myth that emissions of carbon dioxide will threaten the survival of the planet, said Rear Admiral ... More >>
The Chairman of Crop & Food Research, Richard Bentley, announced today that Mark Ward had been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Crop & Food Research. Mark replaces Paul Tocker who resigned in February to join PGG Wrightson. More >>
Plastic baleage wrap is used as a deadly weapon against an invasive marine sea squirt, by the supreme prize winners in this year’s Marlborough Environment Awards. The Didemnum Working Group was last Friday [May 4] awarded the supreme and habitat enhancement ... More >>
Any organization such as the Green Party claiming that man-made global warming is the biggest threat to the world should support nuclear power. This has been said today by Bryan Leyland, an energy consultant of Auckland, who is chair of the economic ... More >>
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released the Summary for Policymakers of its Working Group 3 report Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change. This summary was approved at a plenary in Bangkok, Thailand, this ... More >>
Greenpeace is demanding swift and serious action from the New Zealand government, following the completion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report. More >>
Audio: Greenpeace's climate change spokesperson Vanessa Atkinson talks to Wallace about the spoof on the Genesis Energy pukeko advert. Hmmm, did Wal have a hidden motive? ;-) More >>
Business NZ has welcomed United Future’s support for competition in the area of export meat inspection. Last week Business NZ expressed concern at the anticompetitive features of the State-Owned Enterprises (AgriQuality Limited and Asure New Zealand ... More >>
Reptiles being rescued from the perils of city life to enjoy the tranquillity of Matiu/Somes Island are to be outfitted in the style of lounge lizards sporting “ipods”. More >>
As many as 30 percent of people with asthma may not be being helped by their "preventer" steroid inhaler, and the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation is calling for more research funding so they can be treated more appropriately . More >>
Biosecurity NZ, the lead agency for managing the invasive algae didymo, has confirmed this week that didymo has been found in the upper Hurunui River -North Branch Hurunui about 7 km downstream of Lake Sumner. More >>
Greenpeace said today it was time New Zealand energy companies like Genesis Energy stopped trying to brand themselves as caring and clean, when in reality they were increasing the threat of climate change. More >>
Temperatures are likely to be milder than average for early winter (May–July), according to the latest predictions from the NIWA National Climate Centre. Indications are that conditions in the east are expected to be slightly drier than normal. More >>
Why do the Busheviks hate science? Scientists insist upon presenting evidence and proven facts, regardless of what the Busheviks would prefer to hear. And so, for Bush's team, political dogma, special interests and public relations trump science. ... More >>
The Fungal Foray is an annual event organised by Landcare Research. The Forays began in 1986 and have been held at different sites each year, ranging from Tangihua in the North to the Catlins in the South. The event attracts both amateur and professional ... More >>
Contact Energy’s three year funding for a study into the health impacts of effective home heating choices is paying off, with early results of the world-leading study showing major health improvements for children with asthma. More >>
Scientists from the Sustainable Land Use Research Initiative (SLURI) have developed a system for gauging the effects of erosion in New Zealand. Their work will help regional councils identify and target the most vulnerable land, to minimise erosion ... More >>
AUT Institute of Public Policy's Dr Ian Hassall writes: Dr Robert Larzelere, who claims to be scientific in his support for smacking children makes outrageously unscientific allegations about changes in children's behaviour in Norway since that country introduced ... More >>
Climate Change Minister David Parker says he's impressed by the willingness of New Zealand businesses to get stuck in and develop solutions to climate change. More >>
Carter Observatory will be closing its doors to the public from May 3 for several months, while it is given a major refurbishment. The refurbishment is in two parts, the renovation of the building and the making of new displays. More >>
X-Platform Video: AMP Scholarship winners talk about what the scheme has meant to them. Scoop will webcast one winner's account per week. Details of the Scholarship scheme can be accessed by visiting amp.co.nz . Remember applications close on June ... More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Wammo serves up a complete audio feast! Paul Buchanan on the US War on Tourists - The Independent's Rob Beschizza on WiFi rays - and Nat Gerry Brownlee with politics and handyman hints! More >>
AMP Scholarship winners talk about what the scheme has meant to them. Scoop will webcast one winner's account per week. Details of the Scholarship scheme can be accessed by visiting amp.co.nz. Remember applications close on June 30 2007. More >>
An annual reassessment of gas reserves by the Maui Joint Venture parties has resulted in Contact’s P85* reserves increasing by 37.5 petajoules (PJ). In October 2006 Contact announced it had secured rights to 170 PJ of natural gas under its Right ... More >>
The Californian Thistle Action Group's application to import and release Ceratapion onopordi (Brentidae) and Cassida rubiginosa (Chrysomelidae) to biologically control Californian thistle (Cirsium arvense) has been approved without any controls being ... More >>
Thousands of people across New Zealand at risk of blindness from macular degeneration, could be spared loss of vision with a new class of drugs. More >>
Apple lovers with a taste for the traditional should act quickly to secure the final trees available for rent from the University’s Fruit Crops Unit. Most Pacific Rose and Braeburn trees are rented, but there are still about 20 Pink Ladies available. More >>
Christchurch, New Zealand - HumanWare, the global leader in assistive technologies for vision, today announced that Jolimont Capital and senior managers have proposed a buyout of the company from existing shareholders. The proposal, which is subject ... More >>
The 2007 Fish & Game research scholarship has been awarded to Rasmus Gabrielsson to support his research into the wildlife monitoring of brown trout migration & recruitment patterns in central Otago using natural trace element and isotope markers. More >>
23 April 2007, AUCKLAND: A $1 billion cancer deal based on University of Auckland research is further proof of the University’s world-class research capacity, Dr Peter Lee, CEO of Auckland UniServices Limited, said today. More >>
A $1 billion cancer deal based on University of Auckland research is further proof of the University’s world-class research capacity, Dr Peter Lee, CEO of Auckland UniServices Limited, said today. More >>
Evidence of a bacterial agent in a dead endangered Maui’s dolphin found at the mouth of the Waikato River in November has prompted concerns for the future of the species. More >>
An international study led by the University’s Centre for Public Health Research has been awarded $140,000 by the United States National Institutes of Health to investigate risk factors of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. More >>
One of the South Island’s top performing dairy farm managers says his recognition with two industry awards shows the benefits of benchmarking against a model farm and having comprehensive monitoring systems. More >>
BLIS Technologies Ltd (NZX: BLT), developer and manufacturer of BLIS K12, an advanced oral probiotic for the prevention of upper respiratory infection and the treatment of chronic bad breath, announced that it has signed a significant distribution and ... More >>
Under Labour, good intentions, rather than good science, are enough to get a pass in NCEA science, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. “Students studying chemistry can design unworkable science experiments and still achieve Level ... More >>
May 2 Full Moon at 22 09. 3 Mercury in Superior Conjunction (on far side of Sun ) at 16 00. 5 Antares very close to Moon just before Sunrise. 6 Jupiter 6°N of Moon at 00 00. 16 Moon at perigee (closest to the Earth) at 03:00. (Distance = 0.0024024 ... More >>
In the lead up to the cold and flu season, medical experts are welcoming the arrival in New Zealand of the first treatment clinically proven to reduce the chance of developing a full-blown cold, cut the severity and shorten the duration of cold symptoms . More >>
A health warning has been issued to stop people gathering shellfish from Maketu Estuary to Whakatane River Mouth inclusive, due to high levels of Paralytic shellfish poison caused by PSP toxin. People are advised not to collect or eat shellfish and not to ... More >>
The NZ Drug detection Agency Ltd is delighted to announce a revolutionary analysis service that reveals someone’s history of alcohol abuse over many months, and then tracks their treatment. The service, developed by scientists in Britain and Germany, ... More >>
Climate change clearly presents serious challenges. Under the able presidency of the United Kingdom in Gleneagles two years ago, G8 leaders emphasized that energy security, climate change and sustainable development are fundamentally linked. More >>
A website ranking of the top ten channels in Nielsen//NetRatings' Market Intelligence Technology category for all visitors' unique browsers (from New Zealand and overseas) for the week to 15 April 2007. More >>
Kiwi Encounter at Rainbow Springs in Rotorua has celebrated the end of another hugely successful Kiwi season. Over the course of the 2006/07 season, 112 kiwi eggs were successfully hatched and a further 18 chicks brought in to Kiwi Encounter from the ... More >>
Collaboration between the various players in New Zealand’s innovation system is at unparalleled levels of quality and quantity, says Anthony Scott, executive director of the Association of Crown Research Institutes. More >>
Living Cell Technologies Ltd (ASX:LCT) after rigorous international review has received authorization from the New Zealand regulator MedSafe to advance its program to conduct a Phase I/IIa clinical trial of its DiabeCell® diabetes product in New Zealand. More >>
Soil & Health is calling for more integration of environmental and food safety analysis on GE and pesticide applications, following last weeks Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) Bt Brassica hearing. More >>
Is Augie Auer the most oafish lobby group spokesman in the country? Lately, he makes Garth McVicar look like Steven Price. For Tuesday's Herald online story on the IPCC predictions for Australia and New Zealand, he had yet another feeble potshot at NIWA's ... More >>
Warning that a virulent new wheat-killing fungus called wheat stem rust could destroy harvests across the globe, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today said that it has partnered with other organizations to fight the spread of ... More >>
National’s Agriculture spokesman David Carter is wary of Labour’s move to ram through a proposed merger between two state agricultural agencies. The Government is rushing through legislation paving the way for a merger between Asure New Zealand ... More >>
The president of the Council of Trade Unions (CTU), Ross Wilson has been challenged to produce what he described yesterday as “the overwhelming evidence that greenhouse-gas emissions are having a harmful effect on the environment”. The challenge comes ... More >>
A new research centre for studying climate history in the Southern Hemisphere opens today. More >>
The tongue of the iconic Franz Josef Glacier will melt away in the next 100 years, according to new results from a team of glaciologists from Canterbury and Victoria universities. More >>
Nine and a half million pictures could hold the key to figuring out the best way to help China’s 100 million poorest citizens, and the methodology to analyse this data has been developed right here in New Zealand. Up until now, the problem has ... More >>
The ERMA hearing being held in Christchurch to consider a ten-year field-trial of Genetically Modified vegetables, has already prompted public protest. Amid Crop and Food's presentation about their application two frustrated members of the public ... More >>
It's just not a level playing field anymore says St. Louis based biotech conglomerate Monsanto. Through deceptive practices and misleading advertising dairies and milk processors are convincing the American public that there's something wrong with rBST ... More >>
Depending on whom you listen: Fossil fuel transportation is at the heart of global warming. Entire economies - worldwide - are based on fossil fuel transportation. Transitioning the worldwide transportation market to “alternative fuels” is no ... More >>
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) and the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) have been awarded $735,000 to help further research into Campylobacter, a leading cause of foodborne illness among New Zealanders. More >>
“Dangerous unscientific nonsense” and “lacking in scientific rigour” are descriptions by two scientist members of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition of the latest report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just ... More >>
New Zealand scientists have contributed to a major milestone in the quest to catalogue all of Earth's species. The Catalogue of Life, a comprehensive online directory of all known living organisms, has now topped the one million species mark. More >>
MetService meteorologists have issued severe weather warnings for wind and rain with a series of cold fronts that are forecast to move onto southern parts of the South Island by Wednesday. Following these fronts a bitterly cold southwesterly is forecast ... More >>
"The Future. Today." boasts a rusty billboard in Batticaloa. The coastal town in Sri Lanka's troubled eastern province is at the centre of a renewed military campaign to drive out the separatist forces of the Tamil Tigers (LTTE). From bases around ... More >>
New research just published from the Christchurch Health and Development Study shows that young women who chose abortions had significantly better outcomes in terms of education, income, welfare dependence and domestic violence than those who became ... More >>
The latest UN report shows the jury is now in on climate change and it is time the country started serious work on avoiding unnecessary losses and reaping huge potential benefits from weather changes which are now virtually certain to occur. More >>
Earlier signs of spring, changes in bird migration, and warming lakes and rivers show climate change impacts are already with us, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). More >>
A group of New Zealand scientists is about to achieve payback for a decade of research to find ways of keeping health-promoting bacteria alive at room temperature without the need for constant refrigeration. More >>
MAF Biosecurity New Zealand is examining ways to enhance border security after the detection in the Cook Islands of a vineyard pest, the Glassywinged Sharpshooter. More >>
The development of an unmanned, robotic plane for farmers to collect data on animal health, crop and soil conditions, water uptake and water use is one example of the work to be done at a new multi-million dollar research centre being launched tonight ... More >>
The New Zealand Council of Homeopaths (NZCH) expressed concern at Graham Sharpe’s attacks against their profession. More >>
The Families Commission has just launched a substantial research fund for projects that are likely to produce information that will make a difference for families. More >>
Cooler conditions are likely during April over much of New Zealand, but conditions for autumn as a whole are likely to be about average, according to the latest predictions from the NIWA National Climate Centre More >>
The Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA New Zealand) is to confine its 1080 decision-making committee to four Authority members. More >>
The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology today announced investment of almost $13 million in research projects that focus on improving future living standards and work opportunities for New Zealanders. More >>
Though the rain didn’t begin until nearly 10 this morning, by 3 pm the parkland had already returned to its creatures. A light drizzle, imperceptible in the wood, fell as I walked along the redolent paths, devoid of people except for a couple of ... More >>
New Zealand is still under "watch" through the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, following today's 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Solomon Islands. There is no immediate threat to New Zealand coastal areas. The Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management ... More >>
Cleaner wastewater entering New Zealand's waterways is the vision of two scientists at Rotorua Crown Research Institute Scion, and their work is a step closer thanks to scholarships received by the pair. More >>
Many of the big questions facing the world today relate to climate change: how will the increased greenhouse gas emissions affect our future climate? Can we identify ‘tipping points’ beyond which damage caused by climate change becomes extreme ... More >>
Scoop Report: - An earthquake struck measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale at 8.40am (NZT) today centered about 350km west-north-west of the Solomons Islands capital Honiara. The quake had a depth of 10km. Initial tsunami warnings have been downgraded. More >>
There was an earthquake at the Solomon Islands at 8.40 am this morning NZT (2 April 2007). It measured 8.1 on the Richter scale. Based on current information, the initial assessment is that the earthquake is unlikely to have caused a tsunami that will ... More >>
This year the volcano programme will explore the impact volcanoes have on human lives. Three lectures will cover a combination of Mt Tarawera, White Island, Mt Vesuvius (Pompeii) and Raoul Island. Two field trips will take you to Rangitoto and a Lava ... More >>
Labour is dishing out thousands of dollars to research on bogans in a bid to reach their key goal of ‘economic transformation’, says National’s Research, Science and Technology spokesman, Dr Paul Hutchison. More >>
Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton said today that the innovation that has always characterized New Zealand farming was as important to its future as it has ever been. More >>
AMP Financial Services New Zealand has raised the stakes with its 2007 AMP Scholarship Programme - doubling the funds committed over the next five years to $1million, in order to help more talented New Zealanders turn their dreams into reality. More >>
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