Bridgestone NZ tyres recalled over reports of rapid air loss
Bridgestone New Zealand has issued a recall of Duravis R660 ECO tyres following reports of rapid air loss…
Scientists Melted Diamond at Temperatures Hotter Than the Sun. It Behaved Very Strangely
New melting experiments confirm that diamond floats in metallic liquid carbon at high pressures, much like ice cubes…
Rocky Planets May Have Started Forming Just 100 Million Years after Big Bang
New simulations suggest supernova explosions of the Universe’s first stars scattered the ingredients for rocky planets only 100…
Government gives Fletcher Building $60m for Golden Bay Cement
The deal recognises the strategic importance of domestic cement manufacturing to New Zealand’s infrastructure supply chain and national…
Astronomers Probe Chemistry of Giant Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b
Using the upgraded GRAVITY+ instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), astronomers have measured the ratio of…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Likely Originated in Outskirts of Ancient Planetary System
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have measured carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in 3I/ATLAS, the third…
Who will be Synlait’s salvation?
In a recent article I tracked the massive decline of Synlait. The decline has been a saga of…
Perseverance Finds Complex Organic Matter on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered the most extensive evidence yet of complex organic molecules on Mars, detecting macromolecular…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Formed Up To 12 Billion Years Ago, New Observations Suggest
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries a chemical fingerprint unlike anything in our Solar System, and it may have…
Synlait faces a challenging and confusing future
Synlait is New Zealand’s third equal largest dairy company, vying with Yili, the owner of Westland and Oceania,…
From waste to fuel: New method transforms used ground coffee into high-quality fuel in 90 seconds
ⓘ ChatGPT Thanks to plasma pyrolysis, ground coffee can be converted into fuel in just 90 seconds. Researchers…
There’s an Astounding Amount of Fungi Beneath Our Feet
Beneath your feet lies a hidden “infrastructure” that makes highways look tiny, and scientists just drew its…