Expert Reactions

Expert Reactions | Published: 17 November 201816 November 2018

The National Science Challenges have been through their mid-way reviews, with Minister Megan Woods announcing on Saturday that all have […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 13 November 201813 November 2018

Under the Paris Agreement, nations agreed to limit global warming to less than 2C above pre-industrial levels, but even that […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 13 November 201813 November 2018

A new report from Royal Society Te Apārangi summarises what we know about how our increased exposure to artificial blue light […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 07 November 201807 November 2018

A rare strain of meningococcal disease has killed 6 people this year, triggering the Ministry of Health to ask doctors and […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 05 November 201808 November 2018

Traditional seed banking – storing seeds at low temperatures – will fail to save a third of the world’s tree species from extinction, according […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 02 November 201802 November 2018

US research suggests a link between mobile phone radiation and cancer in male rats, but experts have cautioned that the […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 31 October 2018

A briefing paper on abortion law reform has been handed to Justice Minister Andrew Little, after he commissioned the work in February. The […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 25 October 2018

In a scene right out of ‘The Good Place’, researchers have asked millions of people across the world what they […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 18 October 201819 October 2018

The Ministry for the Environment’s latest environmental report shows that air quality in New Zealand is generally good, but some […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 12 October 2018

Researchers from China have bred healthy mice with two mums (and no dad) that went on to have normal pups […]