Exploring the deep sea
By Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3755 28th Apr 2012
The deep-sea trenches are still among the leastexplored parts of our planet – but fi lmmaker James Cameron and scientists are changing all that.
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.
Sir Paul Callaghan's crazy idea
4 CommentsBy Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3753 14th Apr 2012
In his final lecture, Sir Paul left behind an idea whose time has come: clearing the land of invaders.
Remembering Robert Falcon Scott
Subscriber contentBy Rebecca Priestley in Current Affairs
Issue 3750 24th Mar 2012
Rebecca Priestley travels to Antarctica 100 years after Scott died in freak conditions in a place that now has much to tell us about climate change.
Where Christchurch composts, Auckland may follow
By Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3749 17th Mar 2012
A decision is expected in June on whether Auckland will copy the Garden City's organic waste model.
How Neanderthal are you?
By Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3747 3rd Mar 2012
Everyone outside of Africa is, on average, 2.5% Neanderthal, writes Rebecca Priestley.
Water, water everywhere …
By Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3745 18th Feb 2012
… but we need to be careful how we manage it, says public policy and law professor Robert Glennon.
How safe are airport body scanners?
By Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3743 4th Feb 2012
As Australian airports roll out full-body scanners, our science columnist looks at the scanners already in use in the US.
Higgs boson solution
By Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3741 21st Jan 2012
Are physicists closing in on the elusive Higgs boson or is a surprise in store?
The wind turbines of Scott Base
By Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3739 7th Jan 2012
‘The three sisters’ – a trio of wind turbines – have dramatically cut Scott Base’s fuel bill.
A holiday in seismically calm Oamaru
By Rebecca Priestley in Science
Issue 3737 22nd Dec 2011
The northwest and southeast of New Zealand are the least earthquake-y this summer.