The Government will be changing aspects to New Zealand's higher education system, informed by a recently released report by ...

Five well-publicised geoengineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change in the polar regions are "extremely ...

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Amid this year’s science sector reforms, the 2025 Budget includes money for the establishment of three new Public Research Organisations and a gene tech regulator.

The government has announced the largest reforms to NZ’s science sector in over three decades. The seven Crown Research Institutes will be replaced by three Public Research Organisations (PROs) ...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Aotearoa would enter strict lockdown on 23 March 2020 – two years ago this week. The Prime Minister’s speech signalled the start of the country’s elimination ...

An open letter signed by more than twenty AI experts calls on the government to better regulate the new technology, pointing to low trust and possible harms. The Science Media Centre asked the authors ...

Emeritus Professor Ralph Sims, Sustainable Energy and Climate Mitigation, comments: “Well, the emission reduction plan is yet another step forward in meeting targets, but I don’t detect any urgency.

This weekend marks a year since the floods, landslides, and evacuations caused by a record-breaking and fatal deluge across the upper North Island. Not long after, in early February, Cyclone Gabrielle ...

We now have details of a new Bill which introduces long-awaited reforms to genetic modification rules, reducing restrictions for scientists to work with the technology. The applications for genetic ...

Research & development is one of few winners in the “no frills” budget, with three new science hubs, an investment boost for tertiary education, and support to grow the tech sector. The plan to cope ...

An overseas company has announced plans to “bring back” the South Island giant moa. Colossal Biosciences, working with Ngāi Tahu Research Centre and Canterbury Museum, says it expects to “resurrect” ...