All posts tagged "research"

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  Island life helps birds evolve bigger brains

  Species of birds that live on oceanic islands (islands that rise from the ocean floor due to seismic or volcanic activity) have...

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  Must See

  Modern breeding could make apples red inside and out

  Novelty and health benefits play a major role in influencing consumers’ purchasing decisions and are often controlled in the plant by a...

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  New research continues to reinforce Ecotain’s nitrogen-reducing capabilities

  New independent research findings continue to highlight the nitrogen mitigating effects of Ecotain environmental plantain, with one study showing it halved the...

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  Better tools to predict heart attacks & stroke in NZ

  University of Auckland academics have developed new equations to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease (mainly heart attacks and strokes) in New...

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  Climate change-induced drought will make plant diseases worse

  New Zealand’s land-based primary industries need to get ready for more, and more serious, crop disease as climate change causes more and...

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  Neighbourhood ‘greenness’ lowers Kiwi kids’ asthma risk

  Children growing up in areas with diverse plant life are less likely to be diagnosed with asthma.

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  News and Views

  Governance of regulatory bodies

  Governance in the public sector has always been a vexed question and a report released by The New Zealand Initiative probes this...

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  Rural

  Farmer research highlights hill country risks and opportunities

  Farmers from Canterbury and Manawatu have shared their stories on their hill country development experiences with research company UMR through an anonymous...

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  What bugs live in a cow’s gut and how do they make methane?

  A global scientific project led by New Zealand researchers, which has generated a reference set of genome sequences of microbes found in...

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  Expansion and research on the rise

  One in three New Zealand businesses invested in their expansion in 2017, compared with 1 in 5 in 2007, Stats NZ said....