Birds around the world are singing for nearly an hour longer on average due to light pollution, a global study finds. Millions of birdsong recordings including some from NZ’s North Island were used in ...

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

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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 ...

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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 ...

As Covid-19 vaccination rates rise, scientists and medical professionals will be spending more time engaging with hesitant individuals and community leaders about the vaccine. The Science Media Centre ...