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From Galapagos to Ecuador: science in wild places
2014-02-09ALISON BALLANCE is a science journalist who produces and presents ‘Our Changing World’ on Radio New Zealand. She describes the nuances of her job to Melissa Wastney.
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Snapping stomata and clunking photosynthesis
2014-02-05Melissa Wastney talks to editor JENNY SMITH about how she forged a career in reading and writing science.
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Science badges encourage students to work independently
2013-10-21From optics to meteorology: science badges inspire students to explore further.
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Ice, magic and moa bones: this year’s science books inspire
2013-10-13New Zealand Science Teacher takes a closer look at the books from the Royal Society of New Zealand’s 2013 Science Book Prize, announced in May of this year.
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Ocean science and classic novels set sail
2013-09-02New York science teacher Ira Bickoff talks about his science literacy project.
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Join Julian on a geological adventure
2013-08-05GNS Science outreach educator Julian Thomson has an enviable job: he’s communicating geoscience to the public.
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Australian science literacy falls
2013-07-17A new survey shows basic science knowledge is falling in Australia.
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Moa book wins 2013 Science Book Prize
2013-05-20It may be long extinct, but the moa has been brought back to life on the pages of a new book by Quinn Berentson.
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Questions, numbers and the emergence of new biology
2012-10-15A new synthesis of biology is gradually emerging, although its formulation is anything but complete, writes Paul B Rainey from the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study and Allan Wilson Centre, Massey University at Albany, and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany.