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How new ways of thinking about mental disorders can help treat them
Mental disorders don’t happen randomly, nor are they determined purely by your genes.
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Mental disorders don’t happen randomly, nor are they determined purely by your genes.
Professor Juliet Gerrard on diversity in science, the political hot potatoes, and what constitutes science.
November was the peak month of the 1918 pandemic that killed 9,000 New Zealanders. A century, will we be able to deal with another outbreak?
Human excrement is not just a bunch of dead cells. Most of it is alive, teeming with billions of microbes.
Today's 6.2 earthquake was centred near Taumarunui and transmitted via a rigid subducting slab on the east of the North Island A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck at 3.13pm today, centred 25 …
Dogs think harder when their owners speak gibberish words, a study has found, and one New Zealand dog behaviourist suggests it could be because they're trying to read humans' thoughts.
If the future is going to be powered by renewable energy, the world needs to get a lot better at dealing with one very precious element, the Materialise conference on sustainability in Wellington has heard.
It's natural to assume that the IT revolution will continue forward at a cracking pace, but that could be about to end.
Bronwyn Hayward, Jim Salinger, James Renwick and other experts respond to a critical report from the International Panel on Climate Change The IPCC’s latest special report, Global Warming of 1.5C, has …
Monday sees the release of a new IPCC report that will tell us whether keeping warming under 1.5deg is possible. The next question will be: do we have the will?
This week, Wikipedia hit the headlines after it was reported that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Donna Strickland didn’t have her own page until after her win.
The controversy around signage in Auckland points to a deeper malaise.
Ignorance of the facts of genetic modification poses an economic risk to New Zealand, writes a professor of plant biology.
We dive deep into the heaven-sent octoslap viral video.
Data visualisations created by Ed Hawkins have offered a less traditional approach to popularising climate science, and now New Zealand has a 'warming stripe' of its own
Jaws has a lot to answer for.
Could the Dunning-Kruger effect – when individuals’ ignorance about a particular subject makes them believe they're more expert than they are – be the reason for intractably anti-vax views?
