Science Media Centre

Expert Reactions | Published: 30 August 201811 February 2019

Machine learning AI has been taught to forecast patterns of locations following large earthquakes, according to a new study published […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 29 August 201811 February 2019

Intensive beef farming is the latest farming practice to be called into question by activists. Most of New Zealand’s beef herd are […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 24 August 201811 February 2019

The Chief Coroner has released the provisional suicide statistics from July 2017 to June 2018, which indicate the suicide rate […]

In the News | Published: 24 August 2018

Ramped up biosecurity controls have done a good job of keeping the dreaded brown marmorated stink bug out of the country. But […]

Blog | Published: 24 August 201819 September 2018

This October, the Science Media Centre will take its popular science video making workshops to Christchurch and Dunedin, offering more […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 24 August 201811 February 2019

It might seem like common sense that increasing the efficiency of irrigation would save water. But in a Policy Forum […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 20 August 201811 February 2019

A new family of pesticides, sulfoximines, which are expected to be a key replacement for neonicotinoids, may have sub-lethal effects […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 16 August 201811 February 2019

Despite years of research, we have few tools to combat kauri dieback. If we can’t defeat the disease we’ll lose more […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 15 August 201830 August 2018

A motorway bridge has collapsed in the northwest Italian city of Genoa in heavy rain, killing and injuring dozens of […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 15 August 201811 February 2019

As a heatwave tapers off in parts of the northern hemisphere, a new forecast system has predicted the years 2018 […]