The new national Science Curriculum is expected to become available later this year, after a rewrite was paused in 2024. The ...

The third UN Ocean Conference in France next month will focus on the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. ...

A teenager has died after suffering a head injury while playing a private "run it straight-style" tackle game in Palmerston ...

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NZ Food Safety has proposed changing the residue limits allowed in food for several agricultural compounds. The proposed ...

The Science Media Centre regularly asks both scientists and journalists for feedback on our mahi. The evaluation project is part of a wider research collaboration with the School of Science in Society ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced the new Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Dr John Roche. Members of the newly established Prime Minister’s Science and Technology Advisory Council ...

Treating wastewater with alkaline minerals could soak up over 18 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, new research suggests. Oceans are absorbing increasing amounts of CO₂ from the atmosphere, ...

A picture of a snow-white wolf is splashed across the front page of TIME magazine – but is it really an extinct species back from the dead? The creature is a genetically modified wolf made by Colossal ...

Pollution in our water, land, and air are all coming under the microscope in a major report from the Ministry for the Environment. Our environment 2025 is a three-yearly report highlighting the ...