Category : News
Author: Peter Griffin

OPINION: The war in Ukraine is having serious ramifications for the global scientific community.

Russia, despite having an economy around the size of Italy’s, has always had strong capabilities in scientific research, particularly in high energy physics, mathematics, astronomy, aerospace technology and engineering.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/128370166/hey-russia-well-take-your-disaffected-scientists
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Category : News
Author: BBC

Elon Musk has decided not to join the board of Twitter, the company's chief executive Parag Agrawal says.

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Category : News
Author: Pallab Ghosh

Scientists just outside Chicago have found that the mass of a sub-atomic particle is not what it should be.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/464915/shock-result-in-particle-experiment-could-spark-physics-revolution
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Category : News
Author: Reuters

Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft may have to change their core business practices in Europe as EU countries and EU lawmakers clinched a deal on landmark rules to curb their powers.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/464003/us-tech-giants-face-tough-new-rules-as-eu-countries-lawmakers-clinch-deal
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Category : News
Author: Justin Bachman

Rocket Lab USA Inc. is exploring ways to accelerate development of its next rocket after the invasion of Ukraine effectively ended commercial business for Russia’s Soyuz medium-lift rocket.

Article: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rocket-lab-weighs-speeding-development-150745066.html
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Category : News
Author: Amanda Gillies

Kiwis are being asked to give up booze, sugar and even their couch-potato ways for one month to help raise awareness and funding for New Zealand's most deadly group of cancers.

Give It Up for Gut has been organised by the Gut Cancer Foundation and all the money raised will help detect, diagnose and treat the seven deadly gut cancers which kill, on average, eight Kiwis every day.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/02/give-it-up-for-gut-kiwis-asked-to-give-up-booze-and-sugar-to-raise-awareness-for-cancer-that-kills-eight-a-day.html
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Category : Video
Author: RocketLab
Your pad or mine? Introducing Launch Complex 1 Pad B: officially complete and ready for its first launch next week!
 
Pad B joins Pad A at Launch Complex 1, the world’s first private orbital launch site. Together with our third launch pad in Virginia, Rocket Lab’s launch sites can support up to 132 Electron launch opportunities every year.

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Category : News
Author: The Conversation

NASA has announced plans for the International Space Station (ISS) to be officially decommissioned in 2031. After dozens of launches since 1998 got the station up and into orbit, bringing it down will be a feat of its own – the risks are serious if things go wrong.

NASA's plans for the decommissioning operation will culminate in a fiery plunge into the middle of the Pacific Ocean – a location called Point Nemo, also known as the 'spacecraft graveyard', the furthest point from all civilisation.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2022/02/how-nasa-plans-to-destroy-the-international-space-station-and-the-dangers-involved.html
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