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Want to feel smart but also read something snackable? Check out the Science Media Centre's top 10 NZ science stories for the year.
Tired of the procrastination and timidity of government-led change, climate rage is now ripe for rebellion.
Eight hours a night, every night, has become received wisdom – but how true is it?
With no new classes of antibiotics for decades and resistance to all antimicrobial drugs on the rise, an urgent search is under way to develop innovative new biological alternatives, explains …
The renewal of the takahē population is one of the most remarkable stories of survival in New Zealand's conservation history.
New research has revealed the real reason why cat tongues are so damn rough.
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?
Trees with red trunks and apples that are red right the way through and flower all year round. Should we back or block the genetically changed plants New Zealand scientists are growing?
If you’re not feeling so crash hot this morning after a few too many, is there anything you can take to help?
Women have made a massive impact on scientific research in Antarctica, but they don't get remotely the recognition they deserve.
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.
