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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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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 >>
17 December update - Highlights from Copenhagen
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 4:56 pm | Science Media Centre
More world leaders will arrive today, including New Zealand PM John Key, who will attend the royal banquet later tonight. The US delegation claims it is confident an agreement will be reached, even as other delegates complain of deadlock on key ... More >>
15 December update - Highlights from Copenhagen
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 5:22 pm | Science Media Centre
Today, the high level segment of the conference kicks off, with press briefings from Ban-Ki Moon, Schwarzenegger and Al Gore planned. Side events include announcements on biodiversity, deforestation, the latest on melting ice, and scientists' case for ... More >>
Experts on safety of pesticide residue in foods
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 1:51 pm | Science Media Centre
Safe food campaigner Alison White has compiled a list of commonly consumed foods that contain pesticide residue and claims there are "various serious long term effects associated with particular pesticides found in our food". More >>
Shaky start for Copenhagen
Friday, 11 December 2009, 4:53 pm | Science Media Centre
Week one of the COP15 climate change talks passed in a blur of press conference and closed door meetings while the airing of the Danish text revealed the extent of the work ahead of diplomatics in coming up with a Kyoto successor that will appeal to ... More >>
Animal to human transplants get Aussie go-ahead
Thursday, 10 December 2009, 4:28 pm | Science Media Centre
In 2004, NHMRC recommended that there should be no animal to human transplantation (xenotransplantation) clinical trials in Australia for five years, subject to review in December 2009. The NHMRC Council has now recommended that xenotransplantation ... More >>
9 December update - Highlights from Copenhagen
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 5:30 pm | Science Media Centre
Day two at Copenhagen saw the release of the WMO's last global temperature data, which suggests the current decade is the warmest on record. But the conference has also been dominated by the appearance of a leaked report dubbed the 'Danish texts'. More >>
