Given that Lockwood Smith has removed parliamentary travel perks for sitting MPs, it's probably not politic for me to say that one of the great things about my job as a university lecturer is the opportunity it affords for overseas travel.
Those of you who are expecting an exposition on the chemistry of earthquakes are going to be sorely disappointed.
On April 20, an explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, in the Gulf of Mexico.
How many people throughout history can truly be said to have fundamentally altered human society, not as a result of dictatorial or messianic coercion, but as the result of an invention?
"Hot" is not a word one would usually associate with a Dunedin summer.
I'm not sure whether I'm a baby boomer or if I belong to Generation X. Being born in the year that I was (and I'm not saying when), apparently puts me at the end of the former and the start of the latter.
If I were to mention the name L'Aquila, how many of you would recognise it?
I recently saw Saturn through a telescope for the first time. To see a faint object in the sky transformed into a small sphere with rings around it was, for me, an astonishing experience, and something that I would recommend to everyone.
Cardrona and Snowfarm skifields will receive a boost before the New Zealand Winter Games in August thanks to the Otago Community Trust.
Rotorua is looking forward to a boost in the number of tourists following the publication of a recent study showing that hydrogen sulfide, the "rotten egg" gas that pervades the city, is possibly linked to erectile function.
I started off this year by writing a paean to our greatest scientist, Ernest Rutherford, celebrating the centenary of his being awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1908.
