New overseas research has found that gender disparities in maths performance in favour of boys show up as early as after four ...

Are New Zealand's upcoming predator free goals on the right track? Should we stick with the current target species list as is ...

The government is asking for public feedback on proposed changes to how we can create more housing in Aotearoa, such as ...

The Cook Islands declared a dengue outbreak in Rarotonga last week. Other Pacific nations including Sāmoa, Tonga, and Fiji ...

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The new national Science Curriculum is expected to become available later this year, after a rewrite was paused in 2024. 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) ...

This weekend marks a year since the floods, landslides, and evacuations caused by a record-breaking and fatal deluge across the upper North Island. Not long after, in early February, Cyclone Gabrielle ...

Devastating bushfires along the New South Wales and Queensland coastline have caused the loss of more than 150 homes and at least three deaths. There are more than 130 fires burning across the two ...

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 ...

The government has released its plan to deal with the rising seas, increasing heat and extreme weather that are predicted to come with a changing climate. The Climate Minister says the National ...