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Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 12:07 pm Scentian Bio spins out from Plant & Food Research with investment from Sprout Unravelling the mystery of how insects smell led to a ground-breaking discovery - a panel of synthesized insect receptors could be used to create a device to smell and taste chemical compounds. Scentian Bio was formed to create a novel technology for commercial use in medical, food or industrial settings. Dr Andrew Kralicek, spent the past 19 years at Plant & Food Research determinin...

Most of the payloads in the Falcon 9 were miniscule, with the average size being a bit larger than a coffee mug.

Monday, 25 January 2021, 5:01 pm Over a decade ago, the Primary Growth Fund projects kicked off. The aim was to boost investment into new and innovative technology for farmers, which could be commercialised, helping grow the primary sector’s contribution to the economy. Now at the start of a new decade, innovations like Ballance’s Mitagator™ nitrogen software and FarmIQ farm management software are evidence of the programme’s success, helping keep New Zealand agri-tech innovation at th...

The Italian data privacy watchdog ordered video app TikTok on Friday to block the accounts of any users in Italy whose age it could not verify following the death of a 10-year-old girl who had been using the Chinese-owned app.

We are only just into 2021 but already privacy and cybersecurity are back on the radar as essential issues facing New Zealand businesses, with the high-profile data breach affecting the Reserve Bank. A DLA Piper global survey makes sobering reading: ...

Srivastava along with two colleagues solved long-standing questions in the field, uncovering a deep new connection between linear algebra, geometry of polynomials, and graph theory.

Published January 24, 2021 9:27am The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Sunday said there is no threat of tsunami to the country after an earthquake struck Antarctica. “A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 occurred in South Shetland Islands on 24 January 2021 at 07:37 AM (Philippine Standard Time) located at 62.0 oS, 55.3 oW with depth of 10 km,” PHIVOLCS said. “No destructive tsunami threat exists based on available data,” PHIVOLCS said in its...

The Microsoft co-founder and longtime vaccine advocate thanked those who helped get the shots into arms.

Jurcyzk, who has a long history with NASA, takes over from former administrator Jim Bridenstine.

Covaxin produced neutralising antibodies against the novel coronavirus – a crucial requirement for protection from Covid-19 disease. tech2 News Staff January 22, 2021 15:25:17 IST An illustration of COVAXIN, the vaccine candidate for COVID-19 developed by Bharath Biotech. Image: Bharath Biotech Almost three weeks after the COVID-19 vaccine candidate from Bharat Biotech a...