Making the world go around
Subscriber contentBy Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3805 4th Apr 2013
A work of popular science history takes drama to a whole new level.
Rebecca Priestley
(@RKPriestley) Rebecca Priestley is a science writer and historian with a particular interest in New Zealand’s science history. Her anthology, The Awa Book of New Zealand Science, won the 2009 Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize and Atoms, Dinosaurs & DNA: 68 Great New Zealand Scientists, co-authored with Veronika Meduna, won the Elsie Locke Award for Children’s Non-fiction in 2009. Rebecca curated The Art of Science, a joint exhibition between the Royal Society of New Zealand and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, which opened in March 2011. As well as her regular science column for The Listener, she writes the occasional book review or travel feature and is working on two books: one about New Zealand’s nuclear and radiation history and the other an anthology of Antarctic science.
Looking for solutions
Subscriber contentBy Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3804 28th Mar 2013
Would you like to win $1 million? Just solve a key mathematical problem.
Salt of the Earth
Subscriber contentBy Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3803 21st Mar 2013
As the world’s climate changes, so does the intensity of the water cycle. Will this a ffect the salinity of our oceans?
Micro-organisms: Out of this world
By Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3802 14th Mar 2013
The microbes in our geothermal springs could be biotechnological gold.
The gift of tongues
Subscriber contentBy Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3801 7th Mar 2013
Language is our genes talking – getting the things we want to help us survive.
The dark side of the universe
Subscriber contentBy Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3799 21st Feb 2013
Scientists are gradually finding out more about a mysterious part of outer space.
Going in deep
Subscriber contentBy Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3798 14th Feb 2013
A Niwa-led voyage aims to get to the bottom of a vital salty ocean water source.
Something to chew over
Subscriber contentBy Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3797 7th Feb 2013
Two Kiwis are looking at ways to produce higher-protein foods that could help change the world.
Energising the debate on greenhouse gas emissions
Subscriber contentBy Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3796 31st Jan 2013
Technologies that could cut greenhouse gas emissions are within grasp if only we’d stop building roads.
Ship speed key to protecting bryde's whales in the Hauraki Gulf
Subscriber contentBy Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3795 24th Jan 2013
Limiting the speed of ships in the Hauraki Gulf is a sure way of saving the lives of rare bryde’s whales.