Celebrating Ernest Rutherford’s 150th Birthday
Ernest Rutherford was the creator of modern atomic and nuclear physics - one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century. He started at...
Translating science to the real world: Nutrition as a front-line form of treatment after a traumatic event
Disasters, both natural (e.g., earthquakes, floods) and human-made (e.g., terrorism, civil strife), affect communities worldwide, often causing immense disruption and suffering, and lasting psychological...
Fish oil supplements in New Zealand
Are NZ fish oil supplements safe, true to label and can they provide a health benefit?
I recently co-authored an article in the New Zealand...
Can nutrition be part of the treatment for antenatal anxiety and depression?
Pregnancy is a time where many physiological and psychosocial changes occur. It can bring feelings of excitement but also apprehensiveness and stress and is...
Why the first ever black hole image is so significant
We can now create a close up image of light bending around a 6.5 billion solar mass black hole 55 million light years away....
WATCH: How the physical environment affects our health
At the University of Canterbury’s GeoHealth Lab, Geography Professor Simon Kingham and his team study interesting connections between geography and health: how where you...
Not another COVID eviction story – contested spaces in Christchurch Central City
Since 2019, a colony of Tarāpuka|black-billed gulls – not only critically endangered, but the most endangered gulls in the world - have taken up...
The art of science
Art and science are more intricately linked than we usually imagine. Both are driven by the innate human need to make sense of things....
Geology rocks under a virtual microscope
The GEOL242 lab goes online with a kaleidoscopic new interactive learning experience.
Seeing Science photography competition
The UC Science photography competition provides a chance to share insights through the power of photography. Breath-taking, bewildering, thought-provoking, illuminating…
We received a ton...
