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Cust farmer Roscoe Taggart has reduced his use of nitrogen fertiliser by approximately 80 kilograms this season through trialling a Yara N sensor on his family’s 730 hectare arable and sheep farm over the past two years.

Keeping rooms ventilated and taking breaks are critical factors in stopping respiratory viruses like COVID-19 from building up inside during a gathering, new modelling research suggests. Research published today in PNAS models the spread of respiratory disease ...

Long Beach, California. April 10, 2023 – Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, today announced it will launch NASA’s TROPICS constellation across two dedicated Electron missions ...

A fossilised sponge from New Zealand has been named as one of the top 10 new marine species of 2022. Latrunculia (Latrunculia) tutu, more affectionately known as the Ballerina sponge, has a microskeleton that resembles the skirt of a ballerina. Only ...

YAMAGATA--Middle-aged and older men with zero sexual interest in women are prone to shorter lifespans, a study shows.

AMAMI, Kagoshima Prefecture--While all residents of Japan are issued a My Number Card, domestic cats on Amami-Oshima island will also soon get a similar 

  The ties between New Zealanders’ health and our environment have been revealed in a new report released today by AIA NZ: The Environment and our Health . Increasing temperatures and air pollution, the rapid pace of urbanisation, and ...

Geoscientist Jesse Kearse has returned from California with a treasure trove of earthquake data which he expects to be invaluable to explain and predict behaviour of fault lines in New Zealand. The scientist from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University ...

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata said he felt great after his latest 5-month stay aboard the International Space Station, adding that despite numerous difficulties during the mission he felt a strong sense of teamwork as crew members from other countries pitched in to resolve them.

Highlights: - Dry and cool for upper North Island, wet for South Island - Lower than normal mean sea level pressure meant numerous low pressure systems tracking in from the Tasman Sea - ENSO neutral conditions developed - A late month unseasonable ...