Claire Kaplan, Author at Science Media Centre

Expert Reactions | Published: 10 March 202514 March 2025

About 40% of adults with chronic pain have anxiety or depression, according to new overseas research covering data from 50 […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 07 March 2025

Contractors have “successfully completed their work” to remove diesel fuel and other pollutants from the HMNZS Manawanui off Sāmoa, according […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 04 March 2025

As air temperatures get hotter with climate change, urban fires will get more common, with New Zealand seeing over 40% […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 28 February 2025

The government recently announced decisions on a new framework to incentivise carbon capture, utilisation, and storage by New Zealand companies. […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 26 February 2025

New Zealand and Australia have some of the highest rates of breast cancer diagnoses in the world at around 1 […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 24 February 202525 February 2025

Researchers around the world are racing to get a fuller picture of the ecological impacts of mining the deep seabeds […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 20 February 2025

As the world’s oceans continue to warm, tuna stocks in the Pacific are expected to head east: away from local […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 18 February 2025

The median age of women giving birth in Aotearoa New Zealand has reached 31.5 years in 2024, according to newly […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 15 January 2025

Healthcare systems around the world should rethink how they diagnose obesity, according to an international expert group that says current […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 10 January 2025

Switching up our building materials could store more than 16 billion tonnes of CO2 annually, according to a new study […]