Trapped air bubbles causing wastewater to back up, are suspected to be behind the catastrophic failure of Wellington's Moa ...

The World Meteorological Organisation has confirmed 2025 as the second or third hottest year on record, and 2015-2025 as the ...

The Royal Commission on COVID-19 has outlined more lessons on "making the best decisions in the worst of circumstances". The ...

A data centre being described by the company behind it as an “AI factory” is set to become NZ’s second-biggest electricity user. Resource consent was approved for Datagrid’s Data Park in Southland, as ...

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Nominations for the 3rd annual Science Journalism Awards are open until the end of this week. The awards celebrate excellent reporting on science-related topics across all forms of media by shining a ...

New powers will enable police to require people to leave a public area for up to 24 hours. In an amendment to […] ...

As the price of petrol continues to rise, experts weigh in on fuel saving methods, how to know if the nation still has ...

The government has announced the largest reforms to NZ’s science sector in over three decades. The seven Crown Research Institutes will be replaced by three Public Research Organisations (PROs) ...

Amid this year’s science sector reforms, the 2025 Budget includes money for the establishment of three new Public Research Organisations and a gene tech regulator.

We now have details of a new Bill which introduces long-awaited reforms to genetic modification rules, reducing restrictions for scientists to work with the technology. The applications for genetic ...