Negotiators have failed to agree on a legally-binding global plastics treaty at the UN. The treaty was an attempt to curb the ...

Birds around the world are singing for nearly an hour longer on average due to light pollution, a global study finds.

Professor Nicola Gaston, Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, comments: “Despite the jazz hands in display around the announcement of the NZIAT (or Advanced ...

Professor Kjesten Wiig, Co-director of the RNA Development Platform and Director of the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, comments: “The recent decisions out of the US to cut funding for mRNA ...

Surveys of over 20,000 UK adults show that childhood verbal abuse is associated with similar risks of poor adult mental health to physical abuse. While experience of childhood physical abuse has ...

An analysis of over 6.5 million cardiovascular disease hospitalisations in six countries, including NZ, finds a persistent increased risk of hospitalisations after tropical cyclones. The rate of ...

NZ's four major electricity generators are establishing a "strategic energy reserve" – a ten-year stockpile of fuel. The government says this will improve energy security and result in lower power ...

Dr Stuart Deerness, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, AUT, comments: “The government’s proposal to replace NCEA represents the latest in a series of major education reforms that raise important ...

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