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Our aim is to promote accurate, evidence-based reporting on science and technology by helping the media work more closely with the scientific community.

With the greyhound racing industry coming to an end, most of the 3,000 current racing dogs will be put up for adoption. The ...

Cocaine and methamphetamine have been detected at their highest ever rates in New Zealand's wastewater. Wastewater testing ...

Food regulators want to streamline how they assess the growing range of lab-grown foods, starting with cell-cultured quail ...

Several strains of highly pathogenic bird flu have been found around the globe, and now in New Zealand. The virus found on ...

We now have details of a new Bill which introduces long-awaited reforms to genetic modification rules, reducing restrictions ...

With humanities and social sciences removed from the "blue-skies" research fund, many Māori-led research projects will no ...

The Royal Commission of Inquiry into lessons learned from NZ’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has released the first phase […] ...

The Climate Change Commission/He Pou a Rangi recommends New Zealand set more ambitious carbon targets. The Commission says ...

New Zealand species are among the most vulnerable to extinction in a warming world, according to a global analysis of 30 years of research. The author finds that under a projected 2.7°C rise above ...