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HONG KONG, May 27, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - On April 26, 2022, the expedition ship Xuelong 2 for China's 38th Antarctic expedition berthed at the Shanghai base dock. So far, China's 38th Antarctic expedition, which lasted 174 days and traveled more ... Read more...

Wild animals may be better at adapting to new conditions than scientists previously thought – but there’s an exception for New Zealand’s hihi/stitchbird. A research team including Aotearoa scientists looked at 15 species worldwide , finding their ... Read more...

MetService Red Warnings are reserved for New Zealand’s most extreme weather and since the National Weather Service introduced them three years ago (27 May 2019) there have been seven severe weather Red Warning events. Six events have occurred ... Read more...

Can you imagine not having a name? Believe it or not, the majority of our butterflies have not yet been described! In fact, less than 50% of New Zealand’s insects have a scientific description at all. Scientific names are the key to understanding the ... Read more...

How fast can wild animals adapt? Faster than previously thought, it seems, based on a global study examining rates of evolution in 15 species, including the threatened Aotearoa New Zealand hihi (stitchbird). A higher genetic contribution to differences ... Read more...

A powerful new microscope has been commissioned at Flinders University as part of a national strategy to provide researchers and industry with the latest techniques to develop the next generation of materials and products. Mining, space, advanced ... Read more...

A model that rapidly searches through large numbers of materials could find sustainable alternatives to existing composites. TSUKUBA, Japan, May 25, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - Researchers from Konica Minolta and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology ... Read more...

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare’s new Airvo™ 3 device with OptiO2™ technology, with support from Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, offers a major breakthrough in the delivery of oxygen therapy to critically ill patients. Landmark clinical research, ... Read more...

A new high-resolution ground mapping dataset for the Dunedin and Mosgiel urban areas is now available free for public use - revealing in 3D the urban areas’ bared land surfaces. The geospatial dataset will be an invaluable tool in identifying, mapping ... Read more...

Showa Denko's Program to Develop 8-inch SiC Wafers for Next-generation Green Power Semiconductor Selected for NEDO's Green Innovation Fund Projects TOKYO, May 24, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - Showa Denko (SDK) (TOKYO: 4004) proposed its "Project to ... Read more...