Gamma series

Gammas are backgrounders produced by the Royal Society of New Zealand that are based on issues that emerge in the media and about which there is on-going public debate.

• For whom the bell tolls (and doesn't stop) - Tinnitus
  
• Adversity’s Sweet Milk – A1/A2 Milk debate
• Response to a marine incursion of Styela clava
• Harnessing the Oceans ­– Is it viable to utilize New Zealand’s ocean as an energy source?
• “Yucky dirty hands” – Are New Zealanders washing their hands?
• Battery electric vehicles – Alternative transport methods
• Energy
• Shaking hands and kissing babies ­–Politicians psychological techniques
• In the Blood: New Born Screening
• Coal – New Zealand’s Black Gold
  
• The Scientific War on Terror – Response to new threats
• Climate Change
• Xenotransplantation
• Tsunamis
• Osteoporosis
  
• Lead and you
• Birdflu - The (Asian) bird flu pandemic
• Malaria
• Drinking Water
• SARS
• Bioweapons
• Life after Dolly - Cloning
• Meningitis
• 1080 Who is taking the bait
• Anthrax
• Madcow - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
• Drugs in sport
• Genetic engineering in the field – Gene technology research
• Genetic engineering and ethics
• Foot and mouth disease
• The promise of stem cell research
• Food labeling - what are we eating?
  
• Organic Food
• Eating disorders
• Weight of the world, obesity declared a global obsession