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Two New Directors Join Scion's Board
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:41:22 +1200 | Scion
Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology Hon Judith Collins has appointed Tony Allison and Murray Sherwin CNZM to the Board, effective July 1. They joined existing Board members and newly appointed Board Chair Richard Westlake for their ...More >>
Rocket Lab Sets Launch Date For 51st Electron Mission
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:46:03 +1200 | Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services & space systems,announced the launch window for its 51st Electron launch, a mission that will launch the latest satellite in a constellation ...More >>
Marshallese Women Call For Nuclear Justice
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:22:16 +1200 | RNZ
Women continue to fight for justice, 70 years after the first nuclear tests by the US caused devastation on the people and environment of the Marshall Islands, Netani Rika writes.More >>
Kombucha Offshoot Brews Up Fresh Approach To Anaesthesia Training
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:52:49 +1200 | Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetics
A kombucha byproduct is finding an unexpected new use as a tool for training anaesthetists. More >>
Aotearoa Clinical Trials Announces Partnership With Care Access To Expand Clinical Trials In Diverse NZ Communities
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:38:59 +1200 | Aotearoa Clinical Trials
U.S.-based Care Access to leverage its renowned decentralised capabilities to expand research availability to more communities in New Zealand More >>
Tony Blair: Profiteer And Emissary Of Artificial Intelligence
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:27:33 +1200 | Binoy Kampmark
In May, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) released a report that unabashedly embraced the role of AI in influencing the way states govern. It is the accompanying document to Blair’s own address given at the Future of Britain Conference on July ...More >>
Māori Game Developers And Storytellers Explore China's Tech Scene
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:55:33 +1200 | Asia New Zealand Foundation
Ten Māori business leaders in the game development and digital storytelling sectors are on their way to China for an in-depth look at the country's booming digital and business sector.More >>
Chilean Needle Grass Rust Fungus Approved
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:31:07 +1200 | Marlborough District Council
A rust fungus that affects Chilean needle grass could help slow the spread of the highly invasive weed in Marlborough. More >>
EPA Finds No Grounds To Reassess Glyphosate
Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:13:31 +1200 | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has determined there are no grounds to review the approval for the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in weedkillers such as Round Up.More >>
What's The Model Sheep Of The Future?
Mon, 8 Jul 2024 16:18:10 +1200 | RNZ
The sheep of the future will also carry more social baggage than those of today, he said. More >>
AI for school tutoring, instant medical analysis part of NZ's future - Judith Collins
Thu, 4 Jul 2024 13:22:37 +1200 | RNZ
Artificial Intelligence has a big future with tasks from helping kids learn to assessing medical results, says Judith Collins says. More >>
Tactile Imagery Boosts Excitability
Wed, 3 Jul 2024 09:50:08 +1200 | Skoltech
In a paper published in the Scientific Reports journal, researchers from Skoltech and Moscow State University investigated the effect of imagining tactile sensations (tactile imagery) on the excitability of the corticospinal tract using the transcranial ...More >>
Technology Conference Delivers Renewable Forest Resource Innovators
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:12:48 +1200 | Forest Industry Engineering Association
Encouraged by iconic New Zealanders like keynote speaker Sir Ian Taylor, many young innovators are creating new opportunities for converting forestry fibre to renewable resources for new chemical solutions and to fossil fuel replacements. More >>
Patently Insufficient: A New Intellectual Property Treaty Does Little To Protect Māori Traditional Knowledge
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:05:56 +1200 | The Conversation
The newly signed global Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge might improve the patent system, but is unlikely to improve protection of Indigenous knowledge itself.More >>
Fact Checking Artificial Intelligence
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:20:21 +1200 | RNZ
Start honing your critical thinking skills unless you want to swallow some pretty random information from generative Artificial Intelligence. More >>
Distinguished Scientist Recognised In King’s Birthday Honours
Mon, 3 Jun 2024 10:35:02 +1200 | Callaghan Innovation
Callaghan Innovation Distinguished Scientist Keith Jones today became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to metrology in the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours.More >>
"Save Science Coalition" Launches To Oppose Cuts To Science In NZ
Mon, 27 May 2024 09:00:23 +1200 | Save Science
Today, a coalition is being launched to campaign against cuts to science and science funding in New Zealand. More >>
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act: EU Council Gives Final Green Light To The First Worldwide Rules On AI
Thu, 23 May 2024 05:40:36 +1200 | Council of the EU
The flagship legislation follows a ‘risk-based’ approach, which means the higher the risk to cause harm to society, the stricter the rules. It is the first of its kind in the world and can set a global standard for AI regulation.More >>
AI Has Multiple Uses In Surgery, Research Finds
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:00:53 +1200 | University of Auckland
A group of researchers led by surgery researcher Dr Chris Varghese at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland has just had an article on artificial intelligence in surgery published in leading journal, Nature Medicine.More >>
Laboratory And Natural Strains Of Intestinal Bacterium Turned Out To Have Similar Mutational Profiles
Sat, 11 May 2024 05:12:52 +1200 | Skoltech
Understanding mutational processes in a cell offers clues to the evolution of a genome. Most actively, mutation processes are studied in human cancer cells, while other genomes are often neglected. More >>
