I’ve been scanning newspapers to see how the Science paper by Venter et al. was covered around the world. It isn’t surprising that many newspapers turned to infographics, with varying degrees of success, to try and explain what Venter’s team achieved. Here’s one of the better ones I saw, which British paper The Independent ran…
MoreWhenever geneticist Dr Craig Venter outlines new research he is involved in the whole world listens. That’s because Venter was involved in one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the last 20 years – the sequencing of the human genome. The implications of that advance for the field of genetics has been huge and helped […]
MoreThe international news media has been abuzz the last couple of days with results of a 10 year study into mobile phone use and the possible link to brain cancer. There have been lots of facts and figures thrown about and the subject really needed a good infographic to illustrate the most important thing – […]
MoreThe 10 year long, 20 million euro Interphone study into brain cancer and mobile phone use has finally been published, but the way its launch was handled led to contradictory headlines and confusion among journalists trying to communicate its important findings. For the record, Interphone which is the responsibility of the World Health Organisation, and […]
MoreVideo and in particular Youtube with its massive reach on the web, is an increasingly useful medium for communicating science. And students from the University of Auckland competing in the inaugural Comvita Video Challenge have provided evidence of that, going to great efforts to produce slick little videos communicating, in this case, the science behind […]
MoreI wasn’t in the sharpest frame of mind on Saturday morning after a big night on the town in Auckland with some journalist friends the previous night. However I couldn’t help but notice the headline screaming out from the front page of the New Zealand Herald frontpage as I passed an inner-city dairy. The headline […]
MoreThis time a year ago, the media was going big on one particular story – SWINE FLU! News stories today report intensive care units across New Zealand and Australia were on the verge of turning away seriously ill patients during the pandemic, due to a twelve-fold increase in the number of flu patients being put […]
MoreThis is a long one, but a good one as crazy science letters go. Almost made me choke on my xtra trim milk! From Healthy Options magazine.
MoreThe Press carried some sobering statistics this morning about how we are leaders among comparable countries in the developed world when it comes to dying from heart attacks. As The Press health reporter Rebecca Todd explains: Sixty-three New Zealanders per 100,000 die of heart attacks every year, the report on developed nations shows. The next […]
MoreConsider these two headlines published in the last couple of days: New Zealand Herald: Major research finds link between multi-vitamin pills and breast cancer BusinessWeek: Supplements might reduce breast cancer risk Both are top search results on Google News, but don’t they seem to contradict each other? Let us look a little more closely at […]
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