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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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Scientists respond to effluent reports
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 4:46 pm | Science Media Centre
Agriculture Minister David Carter today sharply criticised dairy farmers who are failing to meet agreed targets for controlling pollution. More >>
Experts on plans for Pacific Fibre undersea cable
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 4:32 pm | Science Media Centre
The SMC has gathered commentary from industry and science experts on the significance of the proposed new cable, and how it might affect New Zealand's science and ICT sectors. Additional comments will be added to the SMC website. More >>
Teens' screen exposure = worse relationships
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 4:29 pm | Science Media Centre
University of Otago researchers have discovered that increased exposure time either to television or computer screens amongst teenagers is linked with poorer relationships with their parents and peers. More >>
Experts On Tsunami And Chilean Earthquake Updated
Sunday, 28 February 2010, 12:38 pm | Science Media Centre
An official tsunami warning remains in place for all of coastal New Zealand as surges of water reach parts of the country including Chatham Islands, Napier, Castlepoint, Tauranga and North Cape. More >>
Experts on Chilean earthquake
Sunday, 28 February 2010, 10:18 am | Science Media Centre
An official tsunami warning is in place for all of coastal New Zealand as waves triggered by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile cross the Pacific and reach our shores. More >>
'IPCC: Cherish It, Tweak It, Scrap It?'
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 10:42 am | Science Media Centre
In response to intensifying calls for reform of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), five influential climatologists have stepped forward with their views on what ought to be done. Their suggestions, in an Opinions article in today's edition ... More >>
Fitness Training A Waste Of Time?
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 11:39 am | Science Media Centre
Are millions of us wasting our time trying to get fit? An article in the New Zealand Herald yesterday certainly suggests this is the case. More >>
NZ leads way in high temp superconductors
Monday, 8 February 2010, 5:16 pm | Science Media Centre
This week, the 18th International Superconductivity Industry Summit (ISIS-18) will take place in Wellington. The Summit brings together various companies - both local and international - involved in the commercialisation of high temperature superconductors. More >>
Lancet kills MMR paper 10 years on
Friday, 5 February 2010, 4:51 pm | Science Media Centre
The move by London-based medical journal The Lancet to retract a ten year old paper that suggested a potential link between the MMR vaccine and autism in children effectively ends one of the longest running medical controversies of recent decades. The retraction ... More >>
Open season on IPCC climate report
Friday, 5 February 2010, 4:48 pm | Science Media Centre
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is facing intense scrutiny worldwide as errors uncovered in its influential 4th Assessment report are dissected in the media and presented as evidence of a lack of scientific rigor in high level climate ... More >>
Research calls for substantial reduction in salt i
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 2:30 pm | Science Media Centre
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this month has prompted calls in Europe for EU-wide salt legislation. More >>
Wakefield Paper Retracted by the Lancet
Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 12:45 pm | Science Media Centre
Prestigious medical journal The Lancet has formally retracted the paper in which Andrew Wakefield, the doctor behind claims that the MMR vaccine can be linked to autism, first claimed such effects. More >>
Science Media Centre Bulletin
Saturday, 30 January 2010, 10:44 am | Science Media Centre
In This Issue Time for a smoko break? Fedoroff and GM Science radar SMC updates New research Sciblogs highlights Events More >>
One step closer to livestock that burp less
Thursday, 28 January 2010, 3:14 pm | Science Media Centre
Today, the first map of a rumen methanogen DNA sequence was published in the journal PLoS One, giving scientists worldwide a major new opportunity to identify methods for cutting methane emissions from cows. More >>
Healthy Eating In Schools - Are We Doing Enough?
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 11:34 am | Science Media Centre
Nearly a year ago, Education Minister Anne Tolley announced the scrapping of a mandate for healthy foods in schools, a move many health experts fear could have lasting negative implications for school children. More >>
Glaciologist responds to doubt over Himalayan melt
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 11:18 am | Science Media Centre
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is reexamining a report it issued that suggests Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2035. More >>
Chaos in Haiti following earthquake
Friday, 15 January 2010, 12:17 pm | Science Media Centre
Haitians are having to fend for themselves in the absence of a coherent disaster response plan following the magnitude 7 earthquake that hit the impoverished nation. Scientists contacted by our colleagues at the Science Media Centres in Australia ... More >>
Scientists on Haiti's devastating earthquake
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 12:48 pm | Science Media Centre
As many as 100,000 people are feared dead after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti yesterday. Our colleagues at the Science Media Centre in London rounded up expert comment from scientists: Up-to-date seismic analysis by the British Geological ... More >>
Down to the wire for carbon deal
Friday, 18 December 2009, 5:17 pm | Science Media Centre
Climate negotiators and heads of states will reconvene in a few hours with the aim of removing the hundreds of square brackets from a draft emissions reduction agreement. If the first week of the COP15 meetings was dominated by the split between the developed ... More >>
Climate change and swine flu dominated coverage
Friday, 18 December 2009, 5:08 pm | Science Media Centre
The swine flu pandemic and climate change were the two biggest science-related issues covered in the New Zealand media in 2009, according to the Science Media Centre's Media Tracker report published today. The top 10 list of science-related stories ... More >>
