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The central and local governments have strengthened drought-management measures because climate change has widened the risk of prolonged dry spells around the country.

Scientists’ work on reducing the incidence of stroke throughout the world, improving health outcomes for Pacific peoples, and predicting the effects of climate change on ecosystems have been recognised in the latest Prime Minister’s Science Prizes. ...

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SHENZHEN, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Three major scientific and technological facilities in the fields of information, the life sciences and new materials were put in

New Zealand’s remotest outpost is now just a video call away with Antarctica New Zealand installing Starlink at Scott Base to improve connectivity. The aim is to give scientists access to modern digital software tools while they are working at ...

Scion senior scientist Dr Grace Villamor is one of 34 new faces at Te Pūnaha Matatini, joining the organisation as a principal investigator for the next three years. Te Pūnaha Matatini is the Aotearoa New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) ...

As a philosopher and writer, some sentences instantly strike me as true, and some sentences instantly strike me as false. How can one be sure one is seeing the true as true, and the false as false? After all, as a famous physicist once cracked, “Don’t ...

The Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is running out of storage space for slurry, a mud-like waste product containing radioactive materials removed from contaminated water that is still accumulating at the site.

Your native language may affect your musical ability, according to University of Auckland and Yale University research. A study comparing the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that ...

New Zealand researchers have contributed to the first ever stocktake of global greenhouse gas emissions. The project involved over 60 researchers from more than 100 countries, including scientists from NIWA. Measurements from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 ...