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
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.
A new strain of ryegrass developed in NZ promises to reduce water demands and curb emissions. But it's genetically modified, so may not be politically palatable.
Misleading remarks in the media erode public confidence in a pest-control tool we urgently need to save species.
Teens have smoked weed from the side of a can for decades, and probably always will. But doesn't that give you Alzheimer's?
At last attitudes across the business sector appear to be seriously changing, writes climate scientist James Renwick
A NIWA scientist explains what they've discovered about the whale in Wellington harbour so far. We're used to traffic jams in Wellington, but when they come with people lining the harbour …
Genetic engineering is central to success of the synthetic meat that has been embraced by Air NZ and caused a flap among MPs
Recently appointed co-director of the MacDiarmid Institute Dr. Nicola Gaston's new role allows her to guide one of New Zealand's top science institutes to potentially world-leading research.
Mould is one of the biggest health risks associated with New Zealand’s substandard housing stock. But what to do about it? Madeleine Chapman came up with an easy workaround.
Siouxsie Wiles celebrates the announcement that Juliet Gerrard will be the next prime minister's chief science advisor
While the meth testing scheme has been proven to be a rort, the dangers of lead contamination in homes is still very real.
People keep dying in police pursuits. Despite this repeated cycle of calls for change, has anything actually changed?
We have a lot of work to do to achieve carbon neutrality in just over three decades. Attention needs to focus on the likes of cars, trees, batteries and farms, writes energy analyst Briony Bennett.
Michelle Dickinson explains why she leapt to the defence of a fellow nanotechnologist at the centre of a Twitter tirade by Tesla billionaire Elon Musk.
Superstar scientist Brian Cox talks to Alice Webb-Liddall about aliens, wormholes, and whether he'd punch Albert Einstein if he had the chance.
What might happen to the ecology, economy and overall quality of life in our distant isles?
