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Transit of Venus itineraries and contact information
Contacts: Nelson Group: Dave Fairley (teacher), Patrick Downey, Michael Holmes, Michael Potton Team Leader: Felicity Connell Mobile no. 021 389 073 Email: teamnelson@vodafone.net.nz Royal Society… Read more…
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Winners of the Transit of Venus school video competition
Three schools have been selected from 72 entries to go on the 2004 Transit of Venus Expedition to the UK, leaving New Zealand on 28… Read more…
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New study reveals New Zealand leadership pathway
A new study to help determine how New Zealand can develop leaders to commercialise and export our science and technology has established a clear pathway… Read more…
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Royal Society sending Transit of Venus Expedition to the UK
The Royal Society of New Zealand is inviting students to investigate the great scientific quest that indirectly brought James Cook and his men to New… Read more…
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13 scientists elected Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
The Royal Society of New Zealand elected 13 new Fellows to its prestigious science academy today, at a gathering of its Academy Council in Auckland.… Read more…
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Pete Hodgson’s Ancestral Mother: Tara, Xenia, Katrine, Jasmine, Velda, Helena, or Ursula?
Professor Bryan Sykes – Genetics as History On Thursday night, 23 October, at the UNESCO NZ Science lecture in Dunedin by Professor Bryan Sykes, some… Read more…
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New Zealand’s Royal Society backs call to UN to ban human reproductive cloning
Latest: UN delays ban on human cloning New Zealand’s science academy has backed a call to the United Nations to ban human reproductive cloning, which… Read more…
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Two New Zealand Scientists Elected Royal Society Fellows
Professor Alan MacDiarmid, one of only three New Zealanders to receive the Nobel Prize, and Professor Richard Sibson, an earthquake expert from the University of… Read more…
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Top ten science books
A tremendous number of nominations came in for the top ten popular science books. Perhaps unsurprisingly, very few of them agreed with each other. The… Read more…
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA
Most New Zealanders remember 1953 as the year Sir Edmund Hilary knocked the “xxxxxx off”. It was also the year that New Zealander Maurice Wilkins… Read more…
