http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- A major new scientific review, involving more than 30 scientists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands sets out our current knowledge of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity in the latest special edition of the scientific journal Pacific Conservation Biology. http://phys.org/news242550231.html Space & Earth Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:30:06 EST news242550231 (AP) -- The moon will appear to take a nibble out of the sun on Friday, a spectacle that will be visible from only a small sliver of the world. http://phys.org/news241117441.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:04:10 EST news241117441 (PhysOrg.com) -- For a male tree weta, size really is everything. In six of the seven species in New Zealand the males all sport a distinctly large head, and the bigger the head, the better the chance of mating. http://phys.org/news240839552.html Biology Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:52:56 EST news240839552 Salvage crews have pumped almost all the oil from a container ship that ran aground on a New Zealand reef and caused the country's worst maritime pollution disaster, authorities said Monday. http://phys.org/news240467162.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:26:13 EST news240467162 (PhysOrg.com) -- The hagfish found in New Zealand’s deepest waters is grotesque enough, thanks to its scary protruding teeth straight from a horror film.  Now, scientists have witnessed the full power of its other gruesome feature – a built-in slime weapon to deter predators such as sharks, making it one of the planet’s ultimate survivors. http://phys.org/news239015195.html Biology Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:06:56 EST news239015195 The Earth's thinning ozone layer is synonymous with a singing and dancing seagull named Sid -- at least it is in New Zealand and Australia. http://phys.org/news238406427.html Space & Earth Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:00:35 EST news238406427 Salvage crews reboarded a stricken ship at the centre of New Zealand's worst sea pollution disaster on Thursday as authorities ordered people off oil-blackened beaches. http://phys.org/news237695098.html Space & Earth Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:25:18 EST news237695098 (PhysOrg.com) -- An examination of ancient and modern DNA by the University of Otago has confirmed that the New Zealand storm-petrel, once thought to be extinct, is a bird which continues to fly our southern skies. http://phys.org/news236261004.html Biology Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:03:31 EST news236261004 Happy Feet, the lost penguin who became a worldwide celebrity after he washed up on a New Zealand beach was released back into the Southern Ocean on Sunday to begin a long swim home to Antarctica. http://phys.org/news234328357.html Biology Sun, 04 Sep 2011 04:12:53 EST news234328357 As record numbers of whales pass New South Wales during the annual northern migration, scientists and conservationists are watching for southern right whales particularly carefully, following new research released this month. http://phys.org/news230979501.html Biology Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:58:46 EST news230979501 (AP) -- Dutch airline KLM plans to use recycled cooking oil as biofuel to power flights to and from France in a move aimed at cutting carbon emissions. http://phys.org/news227949398.html Technology Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:17:27 EST news227949398 (AP) -- If you had hoped to fly Qantas between Australia and New Zealand, you were out of luck. The national carrier grounded planes after a plume of ash from a Chilean volcano moved over the southern Pacific. http://phys.org/news227501939.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:59:19 EST news227501939 Ash from Chile's volcanic eruptions prompted Australian airline Qantas to ground some domestic services and some flights to New Zealand on Sunday, after plumes drifted across the Pacific. http://phys.org/news227073078.html Space & Earth Sun, 12 Jun 2011 04:51:43 EST news227073078 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ground-breaking research by NIWA and The University of Auckland, investigating the annual movements of New Zealand seabirds migrating within the Pacific Ocean, has revealed that populations are genetically distinct, and have been for centuries as a result of their differing migration behavior. http://phys.org/news226165281.html Biology Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:42:21 EST news226165281 (PhysOrg.com) -- A DNA analysis of Kiwi cloaks, the Kahu kiwi, worn by the Maori tribe people in New Zealand, has revealed a previously unknown trade route among early tribes on the various islands that make up the country as it is today. New evidence by David Lambert and his team from Griffith University in Australia, as reported in Molecular Biology and Evolution, shows that there existed a trade route, that until recently, nobody knew about, between the islands that make up the small country in the South Pacific Ocean. http://phys.org/news225545369.html Biology Wed, 25 May 2011 12:30:15 EST news225545369 New Zealand's largest telecoms company Telecom Corp. won a contract Tuesday to build most of the government's NZ$3.0 billion ($2.4 billion) ultra-fast broadband network, officials said. http://phys.org/news225428951.html Technology Tue, 24 May 2011 04:09:20 EST news225428951 Many organizations are under prepared for the loss of valuable knowledge as the oldest members of the baby boomer generation near retirement. http://phys.org/news224940865.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 May 2011 12:34:41 EST news224940865 There’s a race afoot to give biofuel wings in the aviation industry, part of an effort to combat soaring fuel prices and cut greenhouse gas emissions. In 2008, Virgin Atlantic became the first commercial airline to fly a plane on a blend of biofuel and petroleum. Since then, Air New Zealand, Qatar Airways and Continental Airlines, among others, have flown biofuel test flights, and Lufthansa is racing to be the first carrier to run daily flights on a biofuel blend. http://phys.org/news224339571.html Technology Wed, 11 May 2011 13:33:12 EST news224339571 (PhysOrg.com) -- Volcanologists from Massey University and the University of Hamburg in Germany will soon be able to record every explosive burst out of Mt Ruapehu in rain or shine, day or night, with a new high-speed Doppler Radar system. http://phys.org/news221828371.html Space & Earth Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:59:53 EST news221828371 An Air New Zealand in-flight safety video featuring camp US fitness guru Richard Simmons has gone viral on the Internet, the airline said Wednesday, attracting a million hits in three days. http://phys.org/news220675977.html Technology Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:53:14 EST news220675977 Two Norwegian adventurers Monday said they held slim hopes of finding the three other members of their party alive, after their yacht went missing in a fierce Antarctic storm. http://phys.org/news218093972.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:10:01 EST news218093972 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using underwater sensors to explore Lake Rotomahana in New Zealand have uncovered remnants of the Pink Terraces,” once considered the eighth natural wonder of the world. http://phys.org/news217698061.html Space & Earth Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:41:15 EST news217698061 (AP) -- The latest New Zealand earthquake is much weaker than the one that rocked the area last September yet caused much more destruction. http://phys.org/news217602138.html Space & Earth Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:02:27 EST news217602138 (AP) -- Sixty-six survivors of a pod of 80 pilot whales that beached in New Zealand freed themselves and swam back to sea during a high tide, rescuers said on Saturday. http://phys.org/news216194615.html Biology Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:03:47 EST news216194615 Ten pilot whales died when about 82 of the mammals beached at the top of New Zealand's South Island on Friday, officials said, warning that the others could not be refloated immediately. http://phys.org/news216018142.html Biology Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:40:01 EST news216018142 They were called the Eighth Wonder of the World. Until the late 19th century, New Zealand’s Pink and White Terraces along Lake Rotomahana on the North Island, attracted tourists from around the world, interested in seeing the beautiful natural formations created by a large geothermal system. But the eruption of Mt. Tarawera on June 10, 1886, buried the terraces in sediment and caused the lake basin to enlarge, engulfing the land where the terraces stood. For more than a century, people have speculated whether any part of the Pink and White Terraces survived the eruption. http://phys.org/news215951693.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:36:45 EST news215951693 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Otago geologists are part of an ambitious project currently drilling two boreholes into New Zealand’s Alpine Fault to learn more about how large faults evolve and how they produce earthquakes. http://phys.org/news215334448.html Space & Earth Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:08:14 EST news215334448 A University of Otago Marine Science PhD graduate has found a direct causal relationship between the production of a potent and harmful green-house gas emitting from estuaries in New Zealand and escalating impacts of human activity. http://phys.org/news212151983.html Space & Earth Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:07:11 EST news212151983 Internet giant Google said sorry to New Zealanders Tuesday for collecting personal data from wireless networks for its "Street View" mapping service, in the latest in a series of apologies. http://phys.org/news211524938.html Technology Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:20:01 EST news211524938 Massey University's newest Maori PhD, Simon Hills, has taken shell collecting to a new level. http://phys.org/news209744731.html Biology Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:26:45 EST news209744731