The unknown genius of Nikola Tesla
Sciblog’s Editor’s Picks Infectious Thoughts: Botulism or not? Building Blogs of Science: Brain Hype Stick: Callaghan Innovation’s own goal? Waiology: Managing New Zealand’s whitebait species
MoreCoREs get funding top-up, new mission statement
Of the many experiments that have been undertaken in the New Zealand science system, one is generally considered to have been very successful – the formation of the centres of research excellence (CoREs). There are seven CoREs and they each have a specific focus – from advanced materials and nanotechnology at the MacDiarmid Institute to […]
MorePounamu – the science game returns
Sciblogs Editor’s Picks Code for Life: Tackling tuberculosis Hot Topic: Cut carbon or we’re cooked The Dismal Science: Math, reading and purpose BioBlog: An undersea Liberace lookalike
MoreBarking dog – slow motion
Sciblogs Editor’s Picks Griffin’s Gadgets – Get off the Grass review Just So Science – Hope and the Science & Society challenge Guest Work – Wild claims about C. Botulinum Hot Topic – 100% useless: Govt revises emissions target
MoreReview: Get off the Grass
After Sir Paul Callaghan published Wool to Weta in 2009, he embarked on a series of lectures around the country that have, as much as the knowledge he created as a scientist and the jobs and intellectual property he generated as an entrepreneur, come to define his legacy. In Wool to Weta Sir Paul told […]
MoreAussie's national science week
Sciblogs Editor’s Picks Bioblog: The NEW Periodic Table song Open Parachute: News media and public trust in science Molecular Matters: Scientists and engineers on company boards Chthonic Wildlife Ramblings: Xishuangbanna – Butterfly edition
MoreOtago looking for another science communication professor
Well this is exciting – the University of Otago’s Centre for Science Communication is undertaking a worldwide search for a science communication academic to join the Dunedin-based centre run by Professor Lloyd Davis. The Centre for Science Communication is New Zealand’s only dedicated science communication academic centre and has won worldwide acclaim for its work […]
MoreDeborah Blum's creative science writing
if you have read The Poisoner’s Handbook, or any of Professor Deborah Blum‘s science features, you’ve probably marveled at how she spins a gripping story woven through with well laid-out scientific concepts. Take, for instance, her Slate feature about the US Government’s little-known Prohibition-era bid to stop people drinking – poisoning the industrial alcohol bootleggers […]
MoreProjected US temp changes by 2100
Sciblog’s Editor’s Picks Infectious Thoughts: Fonterra and the botulism scare Chthonic Wildlife Ramblings: A visit to Xishuangbanna Griffin’s Gadgets: How will climate change affect New Zealand? Open Parachute: The Curiosity landing – one year on
MoreHow will climate change affect New Zealand?
The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, says New Zealand faces significant impacts from climate change in the next 30 to 40 years requiring a risk management approach and constant environmental monitoring of changes across the country. Sir Peter’s report, New Zealand’s changing climate and oceans: The impact of human activity and […]
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