Two of New Zealand’s pre-eminent scientists, whose work enabled the creation of a new, high-value industry for New Zealand, were today jointly awarded the inaugural Prime Minister’s Science Prize.
Boosting the global uptake of high temperature superconductors, a revolutionary technology transforming a wide range of industries, is the goal of an influential line-up of international industrial heavyweights gathering in Wellington next week.
It is encouraging to see the New Zealand Institute wading into the debate around science and its role in the economy through the paper it released late last year, Standing on the Shoulders of Science.
A promising new gout treatment co-discovered by Lower Hutt’s Industrial Research Ltd (IRL) has taken an important step towards the world’s largest pharmaceuticals market.
Radio New Zealand's Ruth Beran goes to Massey University to meet Geoff Jameson and IRL’s Graeme Gainsford who explain what x-ray diffraction and crystallography is, how it’s done, and what it can be used to measure.
IRL senior scientist Dr Tim Haskell has joined an elite group of Antarctic explorers and scientists by having a geographic feature in the region named after him.
IRL Group Manager, Integrated Bioactive Technologies, Dr Owen Catchpole has won the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Fonterra Prize for Industrial and Applied Chemistry.
World-leading physicist and IRL Group Manager, HTS Conductors and Devices, Dr Bob Buckley last night won Wellingtonian of the Year in the Science & Technology category.
IRL Research Engineer Paul Harris was last night awarded the RJ Scott medal for his significant contributions to the development and application of electronic devices in New Zealand.
Testing IRL's metal - the role of iron in superconductivity
Sharing gains from meat mechanisation
Win-win for What's Your Problem NZ? finalists 
Small wonders - groundbreaking work at the nanoscale
