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New way to recycle plastic waste
10/06/2013
If utilised correctly, new technology could improve lives and our environment forever.
Smartphones help save forest
10/06/2013
Solar-powered smartphones hanging from trees in rainforests are playing an important new role: alerting environmentalists to illegal logging.
Small asteroid sails close to Earth
09/06/2013
Asteroid 2013 LR6 passed above Tasmania, Australia.
DNA data to be shared
06/06/2013
Global Alliance aims to share medical results and boost medical progress
Jellyfish tracked by citizen scientists
06/06/2013
Mediterranean swimmers are at risk from a surge in dangerous jellyfish.
Share learning resources on Environment Day
05/06/2013
Science teachers have a world of environmental resources to tap into
Liquid blood found in mammoth
04/06/2013
Although woolly mammoths are thought to have died out 10,000 years ago, their revival could be made possible, thanks to a discovery on a remote Arctic island.
News briefs for week ending June 2, 2013
02/06/2013
Giant bugs, an astronaut's C.V and naked mole rats

Beware! Mines!

Beware! Mines! »
New STEM Scholarships from BP

BP announces innovation scholarships for Kiwi school students »
Fight Germs and Win!

One of the most topical scientific issues of the 21st Century has to be the antibiotic resistance of microbes. This issue threatens, at its worst, to take our health system back to the brink of the 20th Century. At its best, it is causing a paradigm shift in policy, and thoughts and practises around the application, distribution and cost of antibiotics.As Science educators, we are the banner bearers of change. What we teach, and how we teach it, can expedite vital social change around attitudes to health, and particularly the expectations we place upon our medical practitioners. »
Week of Engineering

Get involved with the Week of Engineering! »
Book Review: Investigations in the Classroom, Bk 2

ES Sci Investigations 2 Cover »