The Hauraki Gulf Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill is due for its third reading in Parliament this week. The Bill extends ...
Government changes to the earthquake-prone building system will remove nearly 3000 buildings from the classification.
Tens of thousands of rural New Zealanders could be drinking water with harmful nitrate levels, researchers say. The ...
We're edging closer to exceeding 1.5°C of warming globally, and scientists will soon gather to understand the implications of ...
US doctors will soon be advised not to prescribe the pain reliever paracetamol to pregnant women, US President Donald Trump said today, citing a unproven link to autism. During the same announcment, ...
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Young contact sports players’ brains can show signs of damage years before symptoms of long-term brain disease appear, a small US study […] ...
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting to review childhood vaccine recommendations in the US. The ...
The government has announced the largest reforms to NZ’s science sector in over three decades. The seven Crown Research Institutes will be replaced by three Public Research Organisations (PROs) ...
We now have details of a new Bill which introduces long-awaited reforms to genetic modification rules, reducing restrictions for scientists to work with the technology. The applications for genetic ...