Laurie Winkless

Laurie Winkless is a science writer based in Wellington. She's obsessed with all things materials, physics, engineering, energy, sustainability and infrastructure.

Science
Feb 10, 2020

We got one book into every high school in NZ, and it might just change the world

Laurie Winkless on the campaign to place Angela Saini's Inferior, a book that disproves many dangerous, incorrect, gender-based stereotypes, into secondary schools.

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Science
Dec 28, 2019

How to reduce the carbon cost of building our world with steel

Lauire Winkless speaks to the New Zealand scientists working to clean up the final frontier and how to make steel in a zero-carbon future.

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Science
Oct 10, 2019

Bringing memory loss to life through theatre

There's a lot of confusion around the symptoms and effects of dementia. Now, neuroscientists are partnering with playwrights to give a voice to the research.

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Science
Mar 9, 2019

Building batteries that go beyond lithium

New Zealand researchers develop novel batteries from a very commonplace material - beyond lithium, skipping the solar cell and downsizing monster redox-flows. Laurie Winkless writes.

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Science
Nov 20, 2018

Feeling the force of fungi to stop it killing our forests

Today the government announced a $13.75 million funding boost for research to combat the spread of kauri dieback and myrtle rust. Could microfluidics be the solutions we are looking for?

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