Two of New Zealand’s pre-eminent scientists, whose work enabled the creation of a new, high-value industry for New Zealand, were today jointly awarded the inaugural Prime Minister’s Science Prize.
Boosting the global uptake of high temperature superconductors, a revolutionary technology transforming a wide range of industries, is the goal of an influential line-up of international industrial heavyweights gathering in Wellington next week.
A promising new gout treatment co-discovered by Lower Hutt’s Industrial Research Ltd (IRL) has taken an important step towards the world’s largest pharmaceuticals market.
IRL senior scientist Dr Tim Haskell has joined an elite group of Antarctic explorers and scientists by having a geographic feature in the region named after him.
IRL Group Manager, Integrated Bioactive Technologies, Dr Owen Catchpole has won the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Fonterra Prize for Industrial and Applied Chemistry.
World-leading physicist and IRL Group Manager, HTS Conductors and Devices, Dr Bob Buckley last night won Wellingtonian of the Year in the Science & Technology category.
IRL Research Engineer Paul Harris was last night awarded the RJ Scott medal for his significant contributions to the development and application of electronic devices in New Zealand.
In a union of art and science, smart materials combined with robotic technologies are being used to make Maori kowhaiwhai (painted designs) come alive.
The 2009 IRL prize for the best demonstration in robotics or automation has been awarded to final-year Auckland University Mechanical Engineering students Dzulfadli Ibrahim and Luqman Kamarudin for their project, "Propeller prototyping for an unmanned aerial vehicle".
New discovery in global war on gout
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IRL scientists scoop PM’s Science Prize
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