Wellington Science

Wellington — Researchers have discovered 26 species of roundworms that are completely new to science.

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Lower Hutt — New technology being tested by Callaghan Innovation scientists has the potential to more accurately ensure New Zealanders are getting the power they are paying for.

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Wellington City — Experts and enthusiasts involved in deep-sea research will meet at Te Papa in Wellington next week for the 13th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium – the first time this international conference has come to the Southern Hemisphere.

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Wellington — Wellington-based software company Syl Semantics can now announce that since July, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Science and Innovation group has being using Syl Semantics’ search engine technology across a number of their content sources.

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Lower Hutt — Lower Hutt Mayor Ray Wallace today congratulated Professor Graham Le Gros, the winner of the science and technology category at last night’s Wellingtonian of the Year Awards.

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Wellington City — Massey University professors have won two of the four medals presented at last night’s New Zealand Association of Scientists Awards in Wellington.

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Wellington — Hutt City Council is sponsoring the science and technology category of the Wellingtonian of the Year Awards for the fourth year running.

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Lower Hutt — Government support to develop the Lower Hutt science organisation Industrial Research Limited (IRL) as a “science HQ” for New Zealand is major boost for business confidence in the city, says Mayor Ray Wallace.

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Wellington — Winners announced! The 2011 NIWA Wellington Regional Science and Technology Fair has again been a resounding success, with nearly 600 intermediate and secondary school students taking part.

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Wellington — New Zealander of the Year this year is scientist Sir Paul Callaghan, and perhaps this is what has inspired the many young entrants in this year’s Wellington Science Fair.

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Lower Hutt — Government plans to expand scientific research into Auckland and Christchurch at the expense of Industrial Research Limited (IRL) in Lower Hutt appear short sighted, says Mayor Ray Wallace.

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Wellington City — Colleagues and family of the late John Offenberger gathered on the Wellington campus last week to celebrate the naming of the College of Sciences block in his honour.

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Wellington City — The Board of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology is delighted to announce that Associate Professor Kathryn McGrath has been appointed as Director of the institute, to succeed the outgoing Director, Professor Richard Blaikie.

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Wellington — Scientific research is known to happen slowly but the timeframes pale into insignificance compared to the years spent on some of the great unsolved Maths problems.

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Wellington City — The annual Welly Awards were held last week at the Town Hall with science champion Dr Gillian Turner taking out the education category.

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Lower Hutt — For the third year running Hutt City Council is sponsoring the science and technology category of the Wellingtonian of the Year Awards.

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Wellington City — The universe is expanding faster and faster but it is because of a mysterious force called dark energy or a break down in Einstein’s theory of relativity? Next Wednesday, a leading astronomer will explore why the universe is expanding at a Victoria University public lecture.

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Porirua — Thermo-imaging cameras like in the movie Predator and wireless robo-bugs are just a couple of the gadgets the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) plans to bring to life for Māori and Pacific students in the Wellington area.

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Wellington City — Chicken-flavoured ice cream and Recycling bins no match for winds.

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