The long-term future of the New Zealand International Science Festival could be damaged by an overemphasis on tourism in a Dunedin City Council draft strategy, festival founder Dame Elizabeth Hanan, warns.
French scientist Prof Serge Haroche will give a public talk in Dunedin today about the "strangeness" of quantum physics, but a prestigious Parisian tertiary institution where he teaches is itself more than a little unusual.
It is the smallest of things that fascinate Nobel Prize-winning scientist Harold Kroto and the biggest of issues. Chris Barton, of the New Zealand Herald, reports.
Dunedin's biggest conference on advanced materials and nanotechnology could point the way to further lucrative smart industries for the city.