This year has been a challenging one on the weather front, with extreme rainfall
amounts recorded across the north and east of the North Island, and along the eastern
South Island. Read more...
A new Lincoln Agritech research programme will find revolutionary ways of using naturally-occurring
bacteria and fungi to increase the availability of nitrogen to plants and improve
plants’ tolerance to stress. Read more...
One of the world’s emerging leaders in creating human-computer interfaces will
join the University of Auckland’s Bioengineering Institute to further his innovative
research. Read more...
Fighting the wave of adolescent obesity in New Zealand could be as simple as establishing
family rules and routines around food consumption and limiting screen time, a new
University of Otago study has found. Read more...
For the first time ever, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) is about to change the cryptographic keys that help secure the Internet’s
Domain Name System (DNS). Read more...
Yesterday, New Zealand Police confirmed 20 deaths linked to synthetic drugs since
July. Most of the samples from people who had died, and those seized in raids by
police, were found to contain the dangerous chemical AMB-FUBINACA. Read more...
The 2017 NIWA Wellington Regional Science and Technology Fair has again been a resounding
success, with more than 550 intermediate and secondary school students taking part.
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The most commonly grown variety of kiwifruit around Te Puke will not be commercially
viable in the area by the end of the century, say scientists.
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