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Amazing navigational precision of humpback whales

21 April 2011 12:30pm | University of Canterbury

Researchers based at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand have found that migrating humpback whales achieve navigational precision usually associated with jetliners or arrows. More >>

Nationwide week of science activities gets underway

20 April 2011 11:51am | The Royal Society of New Zealand

Year 4 students at Eastern Hutt School (from left) Ethan Claridge, Michael Meyer, Oliver Pickering, Cameron Giles, Zoe Ferrera. More >>

New cyber-security survey shows alarming lack of knowledge

20 April 2011 10:02am | Netsafe

Auckland, 20 April 2011 - A new survey into New Zealanders' attitudes of cyber and online security behaviour shows that Kiwis are taking unnecessary risks with not only their home computers, but with protection of their financial and personal information. More >>

Pilot plant at the heart of Southern Lights success

19 April 2011 1:57pm | Massey University

Unique facilities at the Manawatu campus have proven the launching pad for an innovative local start-up company. More >>

Royal Society comments on new discussion paper

18 April 2011 1:58pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand

A new discussion paper about policy formation and evaluation released last week by the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, has been praised by the Royal Society of New Zealand. More >>

AMHA Welcomes Research Results

18 April 2011 11:40am | AMHA

The Active Manuka Honey Association (AMHA) welcomes research results presented at a meeting of the Society for Microbiology in Harrogate, UK which suggest that Manuka honey could play a role in the battle against antibiotic-resistant superbugs. AMHA ... More >>

Ever wonder where Monarch butterflies go for the winter?

17 April 2011 2:08pm | Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

The Monarch Butterfly New Zealand Trust is looking for ‘citizen scientists’ throughout the country to report sightings as the Monarchs follow their annual migration. A degree is not needed; anyone can take part, and everyone, schools included, are welcome ... More >>

11 Precious Baby Tuatara Arrivals

17 April 2011 12:10pm | Rainbow Springs

11 Precious Baby Tuatara Arrivals Rotorua, 17 April 2011 – Ancient stories are hatching at Rotorua's Rainbow Springs with the recent arrival of 11 precious baby tuataras. More >>

Playstation 3 Sales Reach 50 Million Units Worldwide

15 April 2011 4:17pm | Sony Entertainment

Sales of PlayStation®Move motion controller for PlayStation®3 (PS3®) surpass 8 million units worldwide, accelerating the expansion of the PS3 Platform. Tokyo, April 15, 2011 – Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that the cumulative ... More >>

SMC Heads-Up to 22 April: Stillbirths & Canon Media Awards

15 April 2011 3:47pm | Science Media Centre

SMC press conferences and expert round-ups greeted the release this week of a comprehensive series of research papers from leading medical journal The Lancet on the tragedy of stillbirth. One baby out of every 130 who reach the midpoint of pregnancy in New ... More >>

Robust Chch fibre network ready for Govt-backed expansion

15 April 2011 2:49pm | New Zealand Regional Fibre Group

Fast growing Christchurch fibre operator Enable Networks has declared its readiness for the Government’s ultra-fast broadband initiative. And the company’s CEO Steve Fuller wants to kick-start the Government backed Christchurch wide fibre network ... More >>

More accurate science improves agriculture’s GHG profile

15 April 2011 2:35pm | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) has revised down its projections for New Zealand’s agricultural greenhouse gas emissions due to advances in the scientific methodology used to calculate them. Emissions from agriculture are now projected ... More >>

Ground-breaking discoveries on language evolution

15 April 2011 1:58pm | University of Auckland

Psychologists from The University of Auckland have just published two major studies on the diversity of the world’s languages in the prestigious journals Science and Nature. More >>

Final Release Of NZ’s National Exotic Forest Description

15 April 2011 9:47am | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) today released the National Exotic Forest Description (NEFD) 2010 report, confirming the provisional figures as at 1 April 2010, released late last year. More >>

IRL Chief suggests Advanced Technology Research Institute

14 April 2011 1:54pm | Industrial Research

IRL Chief Executive Shaun Coffey is calling for the creation of an advanced technology innovation enterprise to boost New Zealand's important high value manufacturing sector - and proposing that IRL is uniquely positioned to lead such a bold new endeavour. More >>

IRL appoints first Industry and Outreach Fellow

14 April 2011 1:53pm | Industrial Research

IRL Chief Executive Shaun Coffey today announced MacDiarmid Institute Deputy Director and IRL Distinguished Scientist Professor Shaun Hendy had been appointed IRL’s first Industry and Outreach Fellow. More >>

Humans not always to blame for rarity

14 April 2011 11:30am | Massey University

New research shows people may not be responsible for the rarity of a native tree species – a finding that could change how conservation is approached. More >>

2,4-D-resistant Corn Set for Approval

14 April 2011 8:37am | GE Free NZ

Public health will lose again as Food Standards Australia New Zealand Authority (FSANZ) is set to approve GE crops designed to survive spraying with a new range of toxic herbicides. FSANZ are risking the integrity of the food system by ignoring the toxicity ... More >>

Internet service aims to drive down meat prices

13 April 2011 4:53pm | Iclay Media

A smart new internet service aimed at driving down food costs for Kiwi families is set to start operations by mid May. Bulk Meat Buys ( www.bulkmeatbuys.co.nz ) will work in a similar way to the currently popular one day deal sites. The big difference ... More >>

Polycom Announces Cloud-Based Media Services

13 April 2011 1:58pm | Polycom

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), a global leader in unified communications (UC), has announced Polycom’s Accordent Media Services – Powered by Microsoft Windows Azure™ , a cloud services offering hosted on the Windows Azure platform that enables organisations ... More >>

HP Application Transformation Solutions Deliver Flexibility

13 April 2011 1:56pm | Acumen Republic

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April 13, 2011 – HP today announced new application transformation offerings designed to help enterprises drive innovation by delivering application flexibility and speed. In today’s world of instant gratification, everyone expects ... More >>

Seeking Tomorrow's Cure - Middlemore Tissue Bank a reality

13 April 2011 12:44pm | Middlemore Tissue Bank

Cancer is the leading cause of death in New Zealand. Establishment of the Middlemore Tissue Bank is a step forward in advancing medical research into trends showing increased incidence of these diseases in New Zealand. More >>

Research scholarship commemorates Scott’s expedition

13 April 2011 10:15am | Rutherford Foundation

To commemorate the centenary of Scott’s final expedition to the South Pole in 1911-12, a new full-cost scholarship has been awarded to an outstanding young Polar scientist from New Zealand to study at the Scott Polar Research Institute in the University ... More >>

KiwiSpace celebrates 50th anniversary of human spaceflight

13 April 2011 10:07am | Kiwispace

KiwiSpace Foundation has successfully launched a helium balloon above the Waikato and recovered its payload of cameras, tracking equipment and breathtaking images from the edge of space. While the MetService launches meteorological balloons regularly, ... More >>

New psychiatry research released

12 April 2011 3:40pm | Royal Australian and NZ College of Psychiatrists

The latest edition of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry has been released and contains a number of interesting and relevant research articles including: More >>

Gravity Survey Included In Christchurch Subsurface Study

12 April 2011 10:59am | GNS Science

GNS Science will spend the next two weeks undertaking a gravity survey of Christchurch and the Canterbury Plains to get a clearer picture of the subsurface structure of the region. More >>

Sociable Science Wins Top Prize

12 April 2011 9:24am | Comvita New Zealand

The winning Comvita Science Challenge YouTube video entry announced last night, Rust Proof Your Health, did what some would find surprising - it made an entertaining link between antioxidants, which foods contain them and why they're so important, ... More >>

Return of the Cluster Flies

11 April 2011 11:36am | Kiwicare

The annual influx of cluster flies into New Zealand rural homes and farms has begun in earnest. Rural supplies stores and hardware stores around the country are reporting a sudden and dramatic increase in customers seeking help and advice on how to get ... More >>

Merino Product wins International Medical Design Award

11 April 2011 11:20am | Locus Research

Christchurch based The Merino Company and Mt Maunganui based product development company, Locus Research, have scored a major international win with a Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) announced in the United States for their innovative range ... More >>

Volcanologists have eye on the sky

11 April 2011 9:20am | Massey University

Volcanologists from Massey University and the University of Hamburg in Germany will soon be able to record every explosive burst out of Mt Ruapehu in rain or shine, day or night, with a new high-speed Doppler Radar system. More >>

SMC Heads-Up to 14 April: NZPA demise, EQ Conference & More

08 April 2011 4:43pm | Science Media Centre

It seems weird to contemplate news without a national wire service in the mix, but that's the likely outcome following Fairfax's move to withdraw as a backer of NZPA. More >>

Eco bling not enough

07 April 2011 10:34am | Victoria University of Wellington

The changes needed before New Zealand is using its fair share of the earth’s resources are far greater than most people realise say two Victoria University sustainability researchers. More >>

Low soil fertility has paddocks under pressure

06 April 2011 5:14pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients

Some of New Zealand’s farm paddocks are reaching a nutrient tipping point says Warwick Catto, Head of Research and Environment at Ballance Agri-Nutrients. ‘Many paddocks are now close to slipping below the levels required to sustain quality pasture ... More >>

Universities’ collaboration leads to seismic survey in Chch

06 April 2011 4:56pm | Canterbury University

University of Canterbury geologists will be working with four scientists from the University of Calgary’s Consortium for Research in Elastic Wave Exploration Seismology (CREWES) and GNS Science to undertake a seismic reflection survey in Christchurch, ... More >>

Photonz signs with Separex to develop Omega-3 concentration

06 April 2011 1:15pm | PhotoNZ

Biotech company Photonz Corporation has signed a development agreement with French company, Separex . Under the agreement Separex will develop a manufacturing process, scalable to industrial volumes, to concentrate the Omega-3 fatty acid, eicosapentaenoic ... More >>

Calling Budding Designers, Engineers and Inventors

05 April 2011 2:50pm | James Dyson Award

2011 registration for New Zealand’s long running James Dyson Award opens today. The award challenges young engineers and designers to develop problem solving inventions. More >>

The State of Science Education in NZ Schools Examined

05 April 2011 2:12pm | Prime Ministers Science Advisory Committee

A new report released today by the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, looks at the state of science education in New Zealand schools and makes recommendations on future directions. More >>

Symantec System Recovery Delivers

05 April 2011 11:41am | Symantec

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced its strategy to provide organisations of all sizes with a tailored approach to solve their data, system and application recovery challenges to better meet stringent recovery time objectives and keep their ... More >>

Game council puts trophies ahead of nature

05 April 2011 10:32am | Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society

Forest & Bird is concerned that tomorrow's announcement of the setting up of a new statutory Game Animal Council will benefit elite trophy hunters but harm our treasured native forests and animals. More >>

Forgotten Ancient Eruptions In Auckland

05 April 2011 10:15am | GNS Science

New research on Auckland’s volcanic field has uncovered a volcano which had been all but forgotten, and this work will better define what is most likely to happen when the next volcano forms in Auckland. The research is part of the Devora project, ... More >>

Regime Change? Now there's an App for that!

04 April 2011 10:47am | Democri-c

San Francisco- March 30 - Democri-C ™ , an emergency communications iPhone™ App (http://www.democri-c.com) for non-commercial social needs was released today on the iPhone™ App Store in order to meet urgent communications needs for recent disaster ... More >>

Otago University Report Should be Withdrawn

03 April 2011 2:55pm | GE Free NZ

The report on "NZ's Clean Green Image" by a team from the Marketing Department of Otago University should be withdrawn and the raw data released for peer review. More >>

NZ Cows Going Hungry? Otago Report Wrong

02 April 2011 2:14pm | GE Free NZ

A marketing professor and team from the University of Otago are guilty of wasting research money, and potentially misleading decision-makers by asking tourists about ' New Zealand cows and sheep going hungry ', and seemingly proving that global trends ... More >>

Preliminary results from biological farming study promising

01 April 2011 7:15pm | Rotorua Lakes and Lands Trust

The Rotorua Lakes and Land Trust (RLLT) – a joint venture between Te Arawa Federation of Maori Authorities and Rotorua/Taupo Province of Federated Farmers – has been studying nitrate leaching under biological farming systems since August 2010 in Reporoa ... More >>

Thorny issues for scientists talking climate

01 April 2011 5:12pm | Science Media Centre

In a session at this week's Climate futures: Pathways for society forum in Wellington, a panel of science writers and journalists wrestled with what the best advice might be to give climate scientists seeking to reach out to the public. More >>

HP ePrint-enabled Printers First to Support Google Cloud

01 April 2011 12:43pm | Acumen Republic

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April 1, 2011 – HP today announced that Google Cloud Print users can print directly to any from any Google Cloud Print supported app on any computer or smart phone. HP’s portfolio of web-connected and cloud-aware printers ... More >>

Probiotics' potential makes it medicine's next big thing

01 April 2011 11:55am | sticK

Quite how probiotics works in humans, and how we can take advantage of increased knowledge of the role of such good bacteria is one of the big growth areas for medicine according to Gregor Reid. More >>

New research improves predictions of dangerous rip currents

01 April 2011 10:57am | NIWA

New research about how the configuration of beaches and climate cycles affect rip currents will help improve the accuracy of forecasts of when and where dangerous rips occur on New Zealand beaches, potentially saving lives. More >>

Looking Ahead: Science Education for the 21st Century

31 March 2011 5:29pm | Prime Ministers Science Advisory Committee

The report 'Looking Ahead: Science Education for the Twenty-First Century' will be launched at 4pm on Tuesday 5 April at the Liggins Institute in Auckland. More >>

Tagged juvenile tarakihi to teach us about nursery habitats

31 March 2011 1:52pm | NIWA

NIWA Media Release 31 March 2011 Tagged juvenile tarakihi to teach us about nursery habitats More >>

Study examines links between violence and animal cruelty

31 March 2011 11:23am | Victoria University of Wellington

Pets being abused as a way of hurting partners and children is being researched for the first time in New Zealand. The SPCA has received a $100,000 grant from the New Zealand Lottery Community Sector Research Committee to commission a year-long study ... More >>

LG introduces next generation smartphone design and display

30 March 2011 3:06pm | Lily and Louis

New LG Optimus Black Delivers Breakthrough NOVA Display Technology in the World’s Slimmest Smartphone Device. Providing users with a dramatically brighter 4-inch NOVA display in the 9.2 mm mobile device, LG Optimus Black creates a one-of-a-kind user ... More >>

Talented Kiwis take top spots in International Science Fair

30 March 2011 2:27pm | Bright Sparks Hi-Tech Competition

Two Kiwi students have won first and second place in the engineering category at the prestigious Taiwan International Science Fair. Shahn Taylor (18), from Hawkes Bay, won first place with an electricity-generating wind turbine he made from an ... More >>

Angry wasps deal to their competitors

30 March 2011 12:52pm | Victoria University of Wellington

Scientists at Victoria University have identified a surprising and previously unknown behaviour in the animal world by studying interactions between native ants and invasive wasps in South Island beech forests. Videotapes taken at bait stations show that ... More >>

International Fulbright Science & Technology Awards

30 March 2011 9:09am | Fulbright NZ

Fulbright New Zealand invites applications for the most prestigious international scholarship in science and technology, the International Fulbright Science & Technology Awards. Valued at over NZ$350,000 each, these awards are for promising ... More >>