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Students Representing New Zealand At The ‘Olympics Of Science Fairs’ Forging Pathway For International Recognition
Friday, 9 May 2025, 2:25 pm | NIWA
The last time a New Zealand student attended this event was in 2013 and it is only the second time that more than one student from New Zealand has taken part in the international event showcasing scientific inquiry, innovation and creativity. More >>
Nutanix Enables Agentic AI Anywhere With Latest Release Of Nutanix Enterprise AI
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 12:07 pm | Nutanix
Integration with NVIDIA AI Enterprise adds new capabilities to accelerate the adoption of production agentic workloads in the enterprise. The latest NAI release extends a shared model service methodology that simplifies agentic workflows, helping to ... More >>
Nozomi Networks Integrates NVIDIA Blue Field DPUs To Advance AI-Powered Security For OT, IoT And Cyber-Physical System
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 12:01 pm | Nozomi Networks
Critical Infrastructure organisations worldwide have the option to build stronger defences by leverage the leading AI-powered security solution, running on the most advanced compute processing power available for AI. More >>
Dancing With Scammers: The Telegram Tango Investigation
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 11:31 am | Infoblox
Infoblox Threat Intel's latest investigation, titled "Telegram Tango: Dancing With a Scammer", offers a unique, firsthand account of a threat researcher’s journey through a scam, providing valuable insights into the mechanics of cybercrime. More >>
Radware And SUSE Partner To Fortify Cloud-Native Infrastructure At Scale
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 11:24 am | Radware
The combined offering is certified for use on SUSE Rancher Prime and SUSE Edge platforms, enabling seamless interoperability and enterprise-grade performance across hybrid and edge-native deployments. More >>
Summer Forage Crops Prove Inhospitable For Internal Worm Larval Development
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 6:41 pm | PGG Wrightson
Most infective larvae live in the first two to three centimetres of the pasture sward and top one centimetre of the soil. This danger zone is also where much of our stock feed year-round. More >>
New Monitoring Technique For Nanocomposites To Streamline Manufacturing And Property Tracking
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 10:20 am | Skoltech
Advanced composite monitoring currently relies on techniques which are either specialized for material manufacturing or application stages. They are often not interchangeable, and we wanted to essentially positively disrupt the way things are done for nanocomposites. More >>
Statement From Netsafe About Proposed Social Media Ban
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 1:27 pm | Netsafe
“We remain focussed on keeping all New Zealanders safe online. As this debate progresses, we will use our 25 years’ of expertise to contribute to the debate." More >>
First-Ever Index To Benchmark Digital Harms In Sport Launched, Showing How Online Abuse In NZ Mirrors Global Trends
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 10:32 am | Areto Labs
Hate Speech in sports surged 58% year-over-year, with the Index capturing patterns across the US, Canada, the European Union and the UK, Australia and New Zealand. More >>
The Earthquake Clues Hidden Within Nelson Lakes
Monday, 5 May 2025, 6:01 pm | Max Frethey - Local Democracy Reporter
A team of researchers has been scouring Tasman for geological clues to inform new research on how the Alpine Fault impacts other faults that cross the Cook Strait. More >>
How To Watch The Eta Aquariids Meteor Shower In New Zealand This Week
Monday, 5 May 2025, 4:28 pm | RNZ
What is the Eta Aquariids and how can you get a glimpse? More >>
Treating Wastewater To Store Ocean Carbon - Expert Reaction
Monday, 5 May 2025, 3:27 pm | Science Media Centre
The proof-of-concept results show that, if scalable, the approach could help reduce ocean carbon oversaturation, especially in the Northern Hemisphere where the most wastewater treatment plants are located. More >>
Robinson Research Institute Awarded $71 Million To Host Advanced Technology Platform
Monday, 5 May 2025, 2:16 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
Robinson Research Insititute, a pioneer in high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) research, has received funding of $71million towards setting up and hosting an advanced technology platform in Future Magnetic and Materials Technologies. The funding for ... More >>
Tuatara At Risk From Rat Poison As Well As From Rats – Expert Reaction
Monday, 5 May 2025, 12:35 pm | Science Media Centre
Tuatara populations on offshore islands have benefited from anticoagulant poisons to kill rats, which eat their young and compete for food. More >>
Tagged Monarchs Found
Sunday, 4 May 2025, 1:42 pm | Moths and Butterflies NZ Trust
“We are concerned at the apparent decline in monarch butterflies in NZ,” said Jacqui Knight, founding trustee of the Moths and Butterflies of NZ Trust. More >>
Mushroom Testing Could Be Magic
Friday, 2 May 2025, 12:29 pm | University of Auckland
Magic mushrooms are typically either grown from spores or foraged, then prepared in various ways to preserve them and enhance their effects. The active ingredient, psilocybin, is relatively benign, but mushrooms contain other pharmacologically active ... More >>
What Goes Into Making Our Seasonal Flu Jab? – Expert Q+A
Friday, 2 May 2025, 10:51 am | Science Media Centre
As most seasonal influenza vaccines are made using chicken eggs, the SMC asked experts for background on seasonal flu vaccine manufacture and alternatives to the standard jab. More >>
Celebrating 20 Years Of The OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) Standard
Thursday, 1 May 2025, 7:22 pm | The Document Foundation
A Milestone for Open Document Formats and Digital Sovereignty More >>
Enterprise Security In The Crosshairs: Google Reveals Key Zero-Day Exploitation Trends For 2024
Thursday, 1 May 2025, 6:28 pm | Google Threat Intelligence Group - GTIG
“Security & networking products are emerging as prime targets because of the far-reaching access they offer,” the report states. 20 of the 33 enterprise-focused vulnerabilities identified in 2024 were in these categories, including widely used platforms from ... More >>
Oceans Heating Faster In Two Bands Stretching Around Globe
Thursday, 1 May 2025, 3:23 pm | University of Auckland
The world’s oceans are heating faster in two bands stretching around the globe, and New Zealand is in one of them, according to new research led by climate scientist Dr Kevin Trenberth. More >>
Climate Effects Of Volcanoes Beneath The Waves
Thursday, 1 May 2025, 2:25 pm | University of Auckland
Volcanoes erupting underwater have a distinctive effect on the climate, according to research led by University of Auckland and Tongan scientists. More >>
University Connects With VR To Help Treat Fears And Phobias
Thursday, 1 May 2025, 11:32 am | University of Canterbury
Do spiders make your skin crawl or does the thought of in-flight turbulence make you break out in a sweat? A new VR-based treatment could help quell your fears. More >>
Herding Dogs’ Genetic Pawprint – Expert Reaction
Thursday, 1 May 2025, 10:56 am | Science Media Centre
Research published in Science Advances looked at whole-genome sequences of 12 herding breeds, such as border collies and German shepherds, and compared them to those of 91 non-herding breeds. More >>
New milestone in optical computing research: Universal all-optical logic gate reaches 240 GHz
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 9:17 pm | Skoltech
The results of the study were another important step towards the creation of optical computers that can work hundreds of times faster than traditional computers. More >>
Our Seasons Are Getting 'Increasingly Muddled'. What Does This Mean For How We Define Them?
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 3:57 pm | RNZ
Our weather is getting 'increasingly muddled'. What does that mean, and when does winter even start now? More >>
'We Don't Have A Digital Ambition' - Tech Leaders On Lack Of National Plan
Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 6:09 pm | RNZ
"The overwhelming sentiment? Disappointment and a sense of invisibility," a report says. More >>
Hato Hone St John’s Digital And Data Win Big At Veeam Data Resilience Awards
Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 2:16 pm | Hato Hone St John
HHStJ’s Digital and Data general manager Sarah Ellison says, “Winning this award validates the countless hours spent solving complex problems, embracing change, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible through technology”. More >>
One Tree Hill Terraces Too Steep To Weather Storm
Monday, 28 April 2025, 1:28 pm | University of Auckland
“These landslides appear to be unprecedented, at least in living memory, so we thought it was worth investigating and documenting for the future,” Brook says. More >>
Medicare LCD Effective; Pacific Edge Seeks Recoverage
Monday, 28 April 2025, 10:06 am | Pacific Edge
Pacific Edge filed for a preliminary injunction and undertook political advocacy efforts directed at the incoming political appointees within CMS2, HHS3 and OGC4 that included substantial support from the American Urological Association (AUA). More >>
Several US-based Environmental Science Databases To Be Taken Down – Expert Reaction
Thursday, 24 April 2025, 5:04 pm | Science Media Centre
This comes amid wider concerns about publicly available scientific data in the US being taken down and measures to cut research funding, including at NOAA, by the current government. More >>
Only 18% Of Critical Vulnerabilities Truly Worth Prioritising According To Datadog Report
Thursday, 24 April 2025, 2:13 pm | Datadog
The report also found that exploitable vulnerabilities are especially prevalent in Java applications. To better understand the severity of a vulnerability, Datadog developed a prioritisation algorithm that factored in runtime context to its Common ... More >>
Yubico Is Committed To Driving Positive Change Through Its Secure It Forward Program
Thursday, 24 April 2025, 12:05 pm | Yubico
Since launching in 2021, Yubico has donated more than 65,000 keys to nonprofits and advocacy groups in over 20 countries, including The Anti-Defamation League, Freedom of the Press, The Legal Aid Society, and Civil Rights Defenders. More >>
How Can We Balance AI’s Potential And Ethical Challenges?
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 9:17 am | Independent Media Institute
While AI is transforming industries with powerful capabilities, challenges like data quality, bias, transparency, and privacy concerns must be addressed to ensure fairness and accuracy, especially in areas like fraud detection. More >>
New Study Reveals How Solar Coronal Holes Spray Solar Wind Like A Sun Garden Hose
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 8:19 am | Skoltech
A pioneering study led by solar physicists has revealed how coronal holes propel fast solar wind streams of charged particles that race across our solar system. More >>
Motorola Launches Mic & AI Tech To Boost Evidence Gathering
Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 4:12 pm | Motorola Solutions
Motorola Solutions launches SVX and Assist, converging two-way radio with body camera and AI into one integrated device for public safety. Simplifying tech for police officers to revolutionise how they protect and serve More >>
Will A New Chief Science Advisor Be Appointed Soon?
Monday, 21 April 2025, 5:46 pm | RNZ
The role has been vacant since Dame Juliet Gerrard stepped down in June last year. More >>
Māori Concerns About Misuse Of Facial Recognition Technology Highlighted In Science
Thursday, 17 April 2025, 4:13 pm | Nga Pae o te Maramatanga
Her commentary is timely as the Office of the Privacy Commissioner looks to implement a Code of practice to regulate biometric data processing. Kukutai says our Privacy Act is unique internationally because it requires the Privacy Commissioner to take ... More >>
French Expert Examines ‘Global Threat’ Of Microplastics
Thursday, 17 April 2025, 3:19 pm | University of Auckland
Recycling is not an effective solution, because micro and nano-sized plastic particles are still emitted during plastic production, throughout its use and after it is turned into new plastic products. More >>
Mystery Molars Lead To Discovery Of Giant Crayfish In Ancient Aotearoa New Zealand
Thursday, 17 April 2025, 10:55 am | Canterbury Museum
This world-first discovery could change the way fossils are identified across the globe. More >>
Has MBIE Short-Circuited Good Process In Recent Government Reforms?
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 5:17 pm | PSGR
New Zealand charity seeks public inquiries to investigate the conduct of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and the responsible Minister, the Hon Judith Collins in their undertaking of Gene Technology Regulatory reform and Science ... More >>
UC-led Study Provides New Insights Into Ross Ice Shelf Melt
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 9:52 am | University of Canterbury
A new UC study uncovers hidden melt beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, shedding new light on climate change impacts and rising sea levels. More >>
From Past To Future: AI Brings New Light To Solar Observations
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 7:57 am | Skoltech
A deep learning framework transforms decades of solar data into a unified, high-resolution view — adjusting instruments, overcoming limitations, and helping us better understand our star. More >>
Bubbling Gas Seep Draws International Interest
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 8:10 pm | Linda Hall - Local Democracy Reporter
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council groundwater scientist Tom Wilson said while the earliest research study he had seen on this gas seep was 1989, locals had known about it for a long time. More >>
Australia Ahead On GenAI Curve, But Skills And Security Threaten To Curb Value
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 11:21 am | Nutanix
Seventh annual Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index finds Australia ahead of global peers in GenAI strategy implementation, yet lags in technical readiness to extract gains. More >>
Trust In Media Stabilising, Report Shows – Expert Reaction
Monday, 14 April 2025, 11:37 am | Science Media Centre
Authors of the 'Trust in News in Aotearoa New Zealand' report say it’s an early sign of stabilisation after five years of sharp decline. The report also found that approximately 60% of New Zealanders are ‘uncomfortable’ with news produced by ... More >>
As More Communities Have To Consider Relocation, We Explore What Happens To The Land After People Leave
Saturday, 12 April 2025, 5:04 pm | The Conversation
Managed retreat can be traumatic and hard. But with good planning, the land left behind can serve new purposes, and make public what was once private. More >>
How To Build AI Agents That Integrate With SOAR Tools
Saturday, 12 April 2025, 1:48 pm | Hugh Grant
Building AI Agents for Cybersecurity Automation Using SOAR Platforms More >>
NZ Experts Aid Global Report On Hydrogen Storage Tech
Saturday, 12 April 2025, 6:49 am | University of Canterbury
With the right infrastructure, hydrogen can be used to power transport, buildings, and industry. It can be used to store electricity for peak winter electricity demands, to generate off-grid electricity, and decarbonise industrial chemical manufacture. More >>
Satellite TXT expands, how Egmont Village got a fibre network
Friday, 11 April 2025, 8:27 pm | Bill Bennett
This week: One NZ extends Satellite Txt to prepaid customers. In Taranaki, Primo is wiring Egmont Village with underground fibre and city-style pricing. Early wildfire detection, media law reform, and smarter traffic in Auckland. More >>
The Risks Of Pine Carbon Farms – Expert Reaction
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 11:33 am | Science Media Centre
The new report, Alt-F Reset: Examining the drivers of forestry in New Zealand, says that Radiata pine is really the only economical tree for carbon farming. The Science Media Centre asked experts to comment. More >>
Fluoridated Water For Half A Million More Kiwis – Expert Q&A
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 11:17 am | Science Media Centre
The SMC asked local and international experts about what this might mean for public health, and the science around fluoridation. Feel free to use these comments in your reporting or follow up with the contact details provided. More >>
State Of NZ’s Environment – Expert Reaction
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 10:13 am | Science Media Centre
Our environment 2025 is a three-yearly report highlighting the effects of our land use on the rest of New Zealand’s ecosystem. The Science Media Centre asked experts to comment. More >>
Global EV Adoption Fails To Cut CO - Study
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 2:00 pm | University of Auckland
Using data from 26 countries over 15 years, they found a surprising trend: higher EV uptake was linked to increased CO emissions. The reason? In a number of countries, EVs are still being powered by electricity generated through burning fossil fuels ... More >>
Company Claims To Have “De-extincted” The Dire Wolf – Expert Reaction
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 10:06 am | Science Media Centre
The creature is a genetically modified wolf made by Colossal Biosciences, a company valued at $10 billion. More >>
UC Home To Only Modular Quake Simulator In The World
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 8:59 am | University of Canterbury
A new modular “shake table” used for earthquake simulations at the University of Canterbury is the only one of its kind in the world. More >>
Cyber Threats Escalate: U.S. Tops Hacktivist DDoS Targets, But Australia And NZ Remain In The Crosshairs
Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 2:27 pm | Radware
While much of the global spotlight remains on attacks against U.S. infrastructure, it would be a mistake for Australia and New Zealand to consider themselves safe from similar threats. More >>
New Satellite Data Shows NZ’s Major Cities Are Sinking – Meaning Rising Seas Will Affect Them Sooner
Monday, 7 April 2025, 7:19 pm | The Conversation
Calculating the dual effect of rising seas and sinking land gives coastal communities a more accurate projection of the impacts of sea-level rise. More >>
Attachment Styles Shape Adoption Of AI Counselling Tools
Monday, 7 April 2025, 5:29 pm | University of Canterbury
Attachment styles and level of trust in AI influence how willing people are to use it as a counselling tool, a new UC study has found. More >>
Climate Change Conditions Impacting Critical Element For Plant Growth, Fertiliser Need
Monday, 7 April 2025, 3:23 pm | AgResearch
New research published in Global Change Biology journal by scientists from AgResearch and Lincoln University has found that the test used in New Zealand to estimate the amount of available P in the soil may be underestimating the true accessibility of ... More >>
NTU Singapore Scientists Create ‘Fungi Tiles’ With Elephant Skin Texture To Cool Buildings
Saturday, 5 April 2025, 12:41 pm | Nanyang Technological University
In laboratory experiments, the scientists found that the cooling rate of their elephant skin-inspired mycelium tile was 25 per cent better than a fully flat mycelium tile, and the heating rate was 2 per cent lower. More >>
