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Saturday, 15 May 2021, 1:30 pm New Zealand scientists interviewed on Newshub [1] calling for loosening regulatory controls on Genetic Engineering must heed warnings from overseas, and international standards of regulation need to be strengthened against the risks of genetically engineered (GE) viruses and microbes. A new report by the Institute for Responsible Technology [2] is an alert for government regulators and scientists that GE technologies like CRISPR* of viruses and microbes urgently ...

Thursday, 13 May 2021, 11:36 am Nearly five years after the closure of the former Wellington site, the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) Trading Standards laboratory in Wellington is set to reopen. The reopening also coincides with an event for World Metrology Day. Observed on 20 May, this is an annual commemoration of the setting of global collaboration in the science of measurement. The event is being hosted by the team at the adjacent Measurement Standards Laboratory (MSL)...

Thursday, 13 May 2021, 12:55 pm MetService is forecasting a mostly fine day today, after a cold start for most this morning. These settled conditions aren’t around long as a series of fronts zip across the country through the weekend with another cold bout of weather expected early next week. A front with rain lingers in the northeast of the North Island, but fine weather and cool temperatures prevails for most as a ridge of high pressure dominates this Thursday weather pattern. MetService me...

NZ company AFCryo teams up with CPH2 to take on the global decarbonisation challenge with a revolutionary system for on-demand hydrogen and oxygen production from renewable energy CHRISTCHURCH, NZ, 13 May 2021 – Christchurch-headquartered cryocooler developer ...

Friday, 14 May 2021, 6:34 am The pandemic has changed a lot of things – how we interact with each other, how we work, how we use technology. It’s even changed how we play and spend our free time. Before COVID-19, it was not uncommon for people to ‘go out’ for entertainment, and we spent copious amounts of money on houses we barely frequented. This all changed when the world was placed under lockdown. Suddenly, everyone not in essential services had to spend time at home. We had to trad...

Friday, 14 May 2021, 6:44 am Lately, regenerative agriculture has been gaining a lot of attention from the New Zealand media as farmers move away from more conventional agriculture practices. This has brought new attention to the use of dosing pumps in NZ. Just as practices evolve in any other industry, agriculture practices are continually changing. New, better dosing pumps are created, and more efficient machinery is invented. What could be thought of as a crazy idea today ends up being tomo...

Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 10:58 am Losec, a popular treatment for heartburn relief, has recently launched its website. The new site was created as a resource for consumers to learn more about the range of Omeprazole tablets. The new website is designed to be simple and easy for users to navigate. The site aims to educate customers on what causes heartburn and acid reflux and how Losec tablets work to combat the unpleasant sensations associated with these conditions. A dedicated blog and FAQs sect...

Female athletes from Juntendo University’s track and field club engage in interval training at a camp in April 2019 in Chino, Nagano Prefecture. (Kazutaka Eguchi) Genetic factors appear to affect the risk posed to female athletes for getting certain kinds of sport-related injuries, a new study suggests. Scientists found that female athletes fortunate enough to be resistant to muscle dislocation are more prone to getting fatigue fractures. The researchers said they discovered through their an...

ONAN, Shimane Prefecture—The first fossil of a primitive walrus species found outside of North Ame

A Central Otago scientific research station with a globally revered reputation is marking its 60th anniversary. NIWA’s Lauder Atmospheric Research Station is almost exactly halfway between the equator and the South Pole, about 36 km from Alexandra, and deliberately situated in a remote, unpopulated area to take advantage of the clean air and clear skies. It is the workplace of nine NIWA scientists and technicians whose work measuring gases in the atmosphere contributes to global understanding...