The United States is New
Zealand’s largest science research partner, with some 40% of New
Zealand researchers having links with US counterparts. US funding
programmes, however, are highly complex and diverse.
Therefore, in September 2004 the Ministry of Research, Science &
Technology announced the appointment of Dr Brian Young as New
Zealand’s first Science and Technology Counsellor to the United
States of America. The USA is a focus country in MoRST's international
linkagesstrategy and Dr Young's appointment will help to deepen
research collaboration in this important market. Dr Young will be
based at the New Zealand
Embassy.
Through collaboration Kiwi researchers are gaining access to new techniques and previously unavailable equipment, gaining an audience for NZ science and making the connections that can keep us doing world-class research.
Through RSNZ, the Government makes small grants to foster global
connectedness using the International Science and Technology (ISAT)
Linkages Fund, which last year was increased in size to allow for
multi-year funding. Grants enable our researchers to connect to foreign
researchers and expertise. These are remarkably cost-effective - some
grants have allowed our researchers to win much larger overseas grants,
in some cases with a ten-fold return.
2 July 2008: Milk goes green: Cows that receive recombinant Bovine Somatotropin (rbST) make more milk, all the while easing natural resource pressure and substantially reducing environmental impact, according to a Cornell University study. Read more
1 July 2008:
A groundbreaking new study finds that genes significantly affect
variation in voter turnout, shedding new light on the reasons why
people vote and participate in the political system. Read more
1 July 2008: The odd
behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led
to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in
semiconductors. Read more
1 July 2008: Where do cognitive scientists get subjects for their studies? Read more
1 July 2008: Biofuels can
be a sustainable part of the world's energy future, especially if
bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded
agricultural lands, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and
Stanford University. Read more
1 July 2008: More than 15
years ago scientists discovered a way to stop a particular gene in its
tracks. The Nobel Prize-winning finding holds tantalizing promise for
medical science, but so far it has been difficult to apply the
technique, known as RNA interference, in living cells. Read more
1 July 2008: Turmeric, an
Asian spice found in many curries, has a long history of use in
reducing inflammation, healing wounds and relieving pain, but can it
prevent diabetes? Read more
1 July 2008: Researchers
are developing a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit
inside laptops and personal computers, a cooling technology that would
boost performance while shrinking the size of computers. Read more
1 July 2008: New research
suggests that ocean temperature and associated sea level increases
between 1961 and 2003 were 50 percent larger than estimated in the 2007
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Read more
1 July 2008: A compound
found in grape seed extract reduces plaque formation and resulting
cognitive impairment in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease, new
research shows. Read more
1 July 2008: A new study
has found that the closing of the ozone hole, which is projected to
occur sometime in the second half of the 21st century, may
significantly affect climate change in the Southern Hemisphere, and
therefore, the global climate. Read more
1 July 2008: Scientists
are deploying an advanced research aircraft to study a region of the
atmosphere that influences climate change by affecting the amount of
solar heat that reaches Earth's surface. Read more
1 July 2008: Scientists may have found a new way to combat the most dangerous form of computer virus. Read more
1 July 2008: How do the
French get away with a clean bill of heart health despite a diet loaded
with saturated fats? Scientists have long suspected that the answer to
the so-called "French paradox" lies in red wine. Now, the results of a
new study bring them closer to understanding why. Read more
1 July 2008: A new earth
observing satellite being launched in California today will help guide
future Australian ocean and climate science. Read more
30 June 2008:
30 June 2008: US
environmentalists said Friday they expect no breakthroughs in climate
change talks from international players attending the Group of Eight
(G8) July 7-9 summit in
30 June 2008: US-EU private data sharing agreement at hand: report. Read more
27 June 2008: Higher coffee consumption associated with lower liver cancer risk. A new large, prospective population-based study confirms an inverse relationship between coffee consumption and liver cancer risk. Read more
6 June 2008: Senate action on climate bill seems doomed. Read more
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