Would-be deep sea miner's offshore listing delayed.

Professor Juliet Gerrard has been appointed the new chairwoman of the Marsden Fund Council.

A new source of an important acid could earn a Kiwi company big bucks.

A father figure in modern New Zealand soil science, Emeritus Professor Thomas William Walker, known through his television appearances as ‘The Prof’, died aged 94.

Throughout his academic career, Professor Walker pocketed the highest accolades in academe, including fellowships of learned societies and gold medals, and was honoured by the Queen by being made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

He arrived in New Zealand from the UK in 1952 to take up the country’s first university professorship specifically in soil science at Lincoln University.

The world’s first practical jetpack developed by a New Zealand inventor is one of Time magazine’s 50 Best Inventions of 2010.

Glenn Martin spent 30 years working on the Martin Jetpack, which is now in the final stages of research and development.

NBR VIDEO: The Jetpack at Morgo