As Australia rolls towards a Federal election a fair amount of pork barrel politicking is underway as Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott fight to swing the divided electorate their way. Still, there hasn’t been much for science, the only significant thing outlined in Labor’s science policy released this week being the […]
MoreIf you are spending any serious amount of time on the internet these days, you are likely to become the target of cyber criminals who will come at you with something as relatively harmless as spam or as dangerous as a “phishing” attack to steal your bank account details. As we increasingly live our lives […]
MoreAnimal cloning is back in the spotlight in Britain following news that meat and milk from the offspring of cloned cattle may have ended up in products sold at British retailers. It is illegal to sell cloned material in the UK without approval, though scientists approached by the Science Media Centre in London suggest there […]
MoreBP has blasted mud down the shaft of its broken well in an operation it says could once and for all put an end to the biggest off-shore oil spill in US history. The technique they have used to stem the flow is called a “static kill” and the graphic below which ran in the […]
MoreChemtrails over Northland? Well, yes according to Clare Swinney – a massive geoengineering scheme to combat global warming and one being denied by the authorities. It’s a twist on the mass poisoning/ mass medication motive usually given by people who believe the vapour trials left by aircraft passing overhead are actually discharges of chemicals designed […]
MoreIf the treatment of Wired, the Financial Times and the BBC shows the iPad holds a lot of promise for a moribund media, signs are also good that this device and the new wave of touch-screen tablet computers could do great things for communicating science. I’ve been using the iPad for around six weeks now […]
MoreWellington Venture capitalist Jenny morel today unveiled her latest high-tech start-up and one that has the same sort of high-concept and high risk aspects of her investment in the Martin Jetpack. The idea behind the Rex Bionics exoskeleton is not unique – many engineering labs, including those of the US Army have been engaged in […]
MoreThis crazy letter comes courtesy of Sciblogs reader Alistair Mowat, who describes it as “priceless”. “Here is something akin to the discovery of the Japanese soldier found in the late 1970’s on a Pacific Island who was oblivious to the end of World War II,” he adds. “A man has been discovered in Tauranga, NZ, […]
MoreSun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla who has invested in New Zealand alternative energy start-up Lanzatech interviewed for a TechNZ summit in Auckland
MoreThe Wellington workshops of the Emerging Researchers roadshow featured the highest number of social scientists of all the main centres. Here’s how they summed up their research in a couple of sentences… My colleague Dacia Herbulock stepped in to run these sessions while I was down in Dunedin for the science festival. Here are her […]
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