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Science Media Centre NZ
Our aim is to promote accurate, evidence-based reporting on science and technology by helping the media work more closely with the scientific community.
The Science Media Centre is New Zealand's only trusted, independent source of information for the media on all issues related to science. Thousands of news stories providing context from and quoting New Zealand researchers have been published as a direct result of our work.
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Ministry merger, dolphin dilemma, Pink Terraces find
Friday, 16 March 2012, 5:19 pm | Science Media Centre
Super ministry Maui's dolphins Pink & White Terraces Mind reading New from the SMC Sciblogs highlights Research highlights Sci-tech events More >>
Ross Sea plan floated, GeoNet upgrades, Schmallenberg virus
Friday, 2 March 2012, 4:53 pm | Science Media Centre
Ross Sea debate AAAS round-up Livestock virus Geonet upgrade New from the SMC Sciblogs highlights Research highlights Sci-tech events More >>
Briefing: NEEDNT food list targets obese patient’s diet
Friday, 24 February 2012, 5:01 pm | Science Media Centre
When it comes to healthy food, consumers are often at the mercy of misleading dietary claims from manufacturers. Now researchers have cut through the confusion with a no-nonsense list of foods you just don’t need. More >>
SMC Heads-Up: The foods we don't need
Friday, 24 February 2012, 4:56 pm | Science Media Centre
NEEDNT Foods Neutrinos MacDiarmid Commercial Infectious inequality New from the SMC Sciblogs highlights Research highlights Sci-tech events More >>
SMC Briefing: Innovation - learning from the Europeans
Friday, 3 February 2012, 6:01 pm | Science Media Centre
Innovation has become a major touchstone for policymakers and scientists as New Zealand makes changes to some of its state science infrastructure to better support research and development - including restructuring Industrial Research Ltd (IRL) into the ... More >>
Scientists occupy Wall Street Journal
Friday, 3 February 2012, 5:17 pm | Science Media Centre
A group of expert climate researchers has rounded robustly on 16 scientists who complained in the Wall Street Journal (No Need to Panic About Global Warming) that presidential candidates should understand that the statement that "nearly all scientists demand ... More >>
Computer model warned scientists week before big Feb quake
Friday, 27 January 2012, 3:58 pm | Science Media Centre
Scientists have confirmed in a new research paper on last year's disastrous February 22 Christchurch aftershock that computer modelling showed a week beforehand that there was a 25 percent chance of "a magnitude 6 or greater earthquake occurring in ... More >>
Dental detection may send heads home
Friday, 20 January 2012, 5:29 pm | Science Media Centre
Waikato University researcher, Nicky Cameron, has road-tested technology she says could be used to identify the origins of preserved Maori heads -- including many of those being returned to New Zealand from overseas museums. More >>
Bioweapons - should science be censored?
Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 10:50 am | Science Media Centre
Scientists seeking to publish highly controversial studies on the avian influenza virus H5N1 have agreed to remove key details from manuscripts describing their work following requests from the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity ... More >>
SMC Heads-Up: Pacific climate threat, euthanasia & rena
Friday, 25 November 2011, 4:45 pm | Science Media Centre
Australian scientists today released a new report on climate change in the Pacific detailing rising sea levels, increasing temperatures and drastic implications for coral-based eco-systems from growing ocean acidity. More >>
Time to look at end-of-life ethics in New Zealand - comments
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 4:30 pm | Science Media Centre
Today's sentencing of a scientist in a high profile assisted suicide case has re-ignited debate on the ethical and legal issues surrounding euthanasia, and assisted suicide. More >>
Futher climate research emails – experts respond
Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 1:57 pm | Science Media Centre
The apparent release of further email correspondence between climate researchers based at the University of East Anglia is believed to be an attempt to revive the 2009 Climategate fiasco. More >>
SMC Heads-Up to 24 Nov: Extreme Weather, Science Funding
Friday, 18 November 2011, 2:27 pm | Science Media Centre
Extreme Weather Science Funding New from the SMC Sciblogs highlights Research highlights Policy updates Sci-tech events More >>
Lower legal drinking age shows higher risk later
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 2:37 pm | Science Media Centre
American researchers investigating the longterm impacts of a lower legal drinking age in some US states say the evidence points to higher risk of serious harm including suicide and homicide, when the drinking age is lower. More >>
Political parties on the big science issues
Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 2:54 pm | Science Media Centre
The country's political parties have outlined their positions on some of the biggest science-related issues facing the nation in the Science Media Centre's Election 2011 Q&A, which was published today. More >>
Powering Innovation - experts respond
Thursday, 3 November 2011, 4:26 pm | Science Media Centre
The Government today released the findings of an independent report into high value manufacturing in New Zealand, outlining major changes for Crown Research Institute Industrial Research and infrastructure to better support research and development ... More >>
SMC Heads-Up to 27 October: MeNZB, warming confirmed, Rena
Friday, 21 October 2011, 3:57 pm | Science Media Centre
Research led by Professor Diana Lennon, head of Clinical Paediatrics, School of Medicine, at Auckland University, claims a delay in creating and using a vaccine against the killer disease menigococcal B caused unnecessary and potentially avoidable deaths. More >>
Experts Respond: Analysis confirms global warming data
Friday, 21 October 2011, 3:44 pm | Science Media Centre
US scientists have just released evidence of a rise in the average world land temperature, confirming earlier studies and addressing concerns that “heat island” effects as cities developed around long-established temperature recording sites were distorting ... More >>
SMC Heads-Up to 20 October: The Rena science special
Friday, 14 October 2011, 4:34 pm | Science Media Centre
Salvage experts will spend the weekend attempting to remove fuel oil from the stricken container ship Rena in an attempt to limit the environmental impact of further leaks from the ship's tanks. More >>
Rena spill: ecosystems most at threat, plans for monitoring
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 11:19 am | Science Media Centre
As an oiled wildlife response team works to save animals caught in the oil spilt from Rena and beach clean-up continues, scientists are looking at the potential impacts of the spill on sensitive coastal areas of the Bay of Plenty. More >>
