The winners of this year’s Science Journalism Awards cover the dark side of solar storms and explore the impacts of […]
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Science kits launched, curriculum overhaul to come – Expert Reaction
The new national Science Curriculum is expected to become available later this year, after a rewrite was paused in 2024. […]
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Hopes for UN Ocean Conference – Expert Reaction
The third UN Ocean Conference in France next month will focus on the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. […]
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Teen dies after controversial tackle game – Expert Reaction
A teenager has died after suffering a head injury while playing a private “run it straight-style” tackle game in Palmerston North. […]
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Proposed increase to glyphosate limits – Expert Reaction
NZ Food Safety has proposed changing the residue limits allowed in food for several agricultural compounds. The proposed amendments change or […]
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Eleven finalists emerge for 2025 Science Journalism Awards
Update (18 June 2025): Congratulations to Kate Newton and Fox Meyer, who won the Established and Emerging Journalist categories, respectively, […]
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Tuatara at risk from rat poison as well as from rats – Expert Reaction
New research shows that tuatara could be at risk from the same rodenticides that are used to protect them from […]
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Several US-based environmental science databases to be taken down – Expert Reaction
Several public databases from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will be decommissioned starting next month. Earlier this […]
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Company claims to have “de-extincted” the dire wolf – Expert Reaction
A picture of a snow-white wolf is splashed across the front page of TIME magazine – but is it really an extinct […]
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What’s next for COVID vaccines in NZ? – Expert Q&A
As we head into winter illness season, the SMC asked experts for the latest on our COVID vaccines. An updated […]
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