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Science or Snake Oil: do hangover cures actually work?
If you’re not feeling so crash hot this morning after a few too many, is there anything you can take to help?
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If you’re not feeling so crash hot this morning after a few too many, is there anything you can take to help?
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?
DiscoveryCamp is inspiring young Māori and Pasifika students to persist with science. Simon Day talks to three graduates about the opportunities the programme has provided.
The shark The Meg the movie isn't big, it's huge. Prehistoric, millions of years ago huge. But how strong would it's bite be? And how fast could it move? Michael Milford and Peter Stratton break down the science.
Now that single-use plastic bags are on their way out, what are we going to line our rubbish bins with? Compostable bags? Not so fast, warns AUT emeritus professor Thomas Neitzert.
Which carries more bacteria, your toilet seat or your desk? If you guessed the former, you'd be very, very wrong.
There is simply no way to present this material without misrepresenting the science, writes cosmologist Richard Easther
In the south especially, New Zealanders will get the chance to witness a rare celestial event: a selenelion
Would a journal publish a pseudo-study about arse-wiping? A psychology lecturer decided to find out
The editor of Dunedin's student magazine may not like it, but the University of Otago's hunt for Nessie was science communication at its finest, argues Ellen Rykers.
Whether you're mining bitcoin or Googling yourself, you're creating a lot of heat somewhere. A group of New Zealand scientists have found a way to take the heat off data centres.
