Expert Reactions

Expert Reactions | Published: 20 November 201821 November 2018

The Government has today announced a funding increase of $13.75 million over three years for research to combat the spread of kauri […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 20 November 201822 November 2018

NASA has announced the landing site for its Mars 2020 rover, which is due to touch down in February 2021 in […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 17 November 201823 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 […]