I spent a couple of hours last weekend browsing the stands at the Go Green Expo which filled the TSB Arena with vendors promoting “sustainability, organics and green living”. For me the expo represents the best and worst of the green movement. On one hand we had companies displaying photovoltaic panel kits to allow you […]
MoreBrace yourself for reporters swigging beers on Seven Sharp then breath-testing themselves and arguments at work drinks over how much booze is too much before driving home. Thoroughly thrashed in the media a few years ago, the blood alcohol limit for drivers is again in the spotlight with Labour MP Iain Lees Galloway’s private members bill […]
MoreI’ve dived at the beautiful Mokohinau Islands, but wasn’t lucky enough to come across a sight like this. The eels were photographed by Auckland-based scientist James Williams near an underwater cliff at the Mokohinau Islands, off the northeast coast of the North Island. The National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) holds a photo […]
MoreThe big science story of the week is undoubtably the remarkable results from US researchers who have successfully silenced the extra chromosome responsible for Down’s syndrome. The scientists, who published their results in Nature, took cells from people with Down’s and were able to silence the extra chromosome 21 responsible for the traits that lead […]
MoreIt has taken nearly two months, but Food Standards Australia and New Zealand has finally responded to criticisms of its regulation of GM foods after it was accused of “systemic neglect” in its regulatory regime by Canterbury University’s Professor Jack Heinemann. The response is well worth a read for Sciblogs regulars who have followed the […]
MoreBudget 2013 saw a net increase of around $50 million in science and innovation funding, according to Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce who tweeted the factoid in response to Sciblogger Siouxsie Wiles. $130 million of funding has been committed to boosting R&D efforts in companies and start-ups, $107m of which will come from the […]
MoreBritish fertility expert and science communicator Lord Robert Winston has introduced a Bill in the House of Lords that would require all medicines that have utilised animal testing in their development to be labelled as such. Previous attempts to introduce labelling have failed in the face of strong opposition from the UK Department of Health […]
MoreThe Government has announced the National Science Challenges – 10 areas of focus over the next four years – $73.5 million in new funding to address them ($133.5 million in total to be spent on research addressing them). The areas of focus are: 1. Aging well 2. A better start 3. Healthier lives 4. High […]
MoreAs we close out a year of scientific discoveries, many of which attracted discussion here on Sciblogs, its worth looking at some of the big science-related stories that captured public attention in 2012. My colleagues at the Australian Science Media Centre has done most of the work for me – issuing just before Christmas a […]
MoreIf you haven’t seen the latest 007 installment Skyfall, do so – it is great. It is also pretty violent as the climax plays out like a version of the three-way graveyard gunfight in The Good the Bad and the Ugly. But how violent are the Bond films, which after all, are rated “as suitable […]
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