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Our Changing World: Dissecting The World’s Rarest Whale
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 1:38 pm | RNZ
It made international headlines last year. What does a scientific dissection of the world's rarest whale involve? More >>
NZ Budget 2025: Science Investment Must Increase As A Proportion Of GDP For NZ To Innovate And Compete
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 1:09 pm | The Conversation
New Zealand trails far behind other wealthy countries in research funding and strategy. This inhibits the innovation that could drive a more productive economy. More >>
Datadog AI Research Launches New Open-Weights AI Foundation Model And Observability Benchmark
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 11:12 am | Datadog
The initial releases from Datadog AI Research are Toto and BOOM. Toto is the first open-source foundation model focused on observability. Time series foundation models (TSFMs) are to time series what LLMs are to language. More >>
F5 Delivers Scalable And Secure Cloud-Native Network Functionality For AI And High-Bandwidth Applications
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 3:35 pm | F 5
F5 has unveiled F5 BIG-IP Next Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNF) 2.0, an evolved solution that significantly enhances the capabilities of the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) for large-scale cloud-native applications. More >>
F5 Expands Strategic Collaboration With Red Hat To Enable Scalable, Secure Enterprise AI
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 2:59 pm | F 5
Solutions address key challenges in enterprise AI adoption—enabling secure model serving, scalable data movement, and real-time inference across environments. F5 is collaborating with Red Hat to focus on the real-world building blocks enterprises ... More >>
Proposed Increase To Glyphosate Limits – Expert Reaction
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 12:39 pm | Science Media Centre
The proposed amendments change or set maximum residue levels in food sold in NZ for 14 substances, including glyphosate. Glyphosate limits would increase for certain cereal and pea crops, to “support existing use” as a preharvest herbicide or ... More >>
New Cyber Threat 'Hazy Hawk' Hijacks Major Domains – Are You At Risk?
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 12:32 pm | Infoblox
Infoblox Threat Intel has tracked some of this activity to a threat actor, dubbed Hazy Hawk, that uses hijacked domains to conduct large-scale scams and malware distribution. Hazy Hawk is a sophisticated threat actor that hijacks forgotten DNS records from ... More >>
From Way Back To The Future: Space-Time Ripples Study Heralded
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 11:16 am | University of Canterbury
A UC major breakthrough in gravitational physics has been recognised by a top international scientific journal. More >>
BLDC Motor Controller That Cuts Downtime By 30% Here’s How
Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 10:14 am | Hugh Grant
A BLDC, or the Brushless DC motor, is an electrically operated motor that is an upgraded alternative to the traditional brushed DC motors. As the name suggests, it is free of brushes or commutators for mechanical commutation. More >>
How AI Is Changing Web Scraping: From Coding To Natural Language
Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 8:57 am | Hugh Grant
AI-driven web scraping is leading the charge, with a projected 17.8% annual growth rate and businesses everywhere—from e-commerce to finance—jumping on board for smarter, faster data extraction. More >>
Bee Inspired By Nature To Nourish Us All: World Bee Day, 20 May 2025
Monday, 19 May 2025, 8:42 pm | Apiculture NZ
While some countries have been struggling with dramatic colony losses over winter, colony loss rates in New Zealand over the cold winter months have been declining. More >>
Top Astronomy Award For Kaikōura Dark Skies Advocate
Monday, 19 May 2025, 7:40 pm | David Hill - Local Democracy Reporter
Kaikōura Dark Sky Trust founding member Nicky McArthur is the recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand's Bright Star Award. More >>
Researchers Uncover Giant 30-year-old Fungus Near Eltham
Sunday, 18 May 2025, 7:44 pm | RNZ
A trio of fungal experts stumbled across the largest Ganoderma specimen they had ever seen during the annual New Zealand Fungal Foray this week in Taranaki. More >>
Chief Science Advisor Needs Courage To Take Honest Look At GE Failures
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 8:49 pm | GE Free NZ
The new Chief Scientist should recommend aligning research investment with the existing value food chain to preserve New Zealand’s healthy, high quality food that is GE Free. More >>
Tiny Lantern To Illuminate Blood Vessel Health — From Within
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 8:30 pm | Skoltech
Endoscopic probes made of glass fiber are a promising way to reach hard-to-access regions in the body for medical imaging or therapeutic purposes. More >>
The Selwyn Foundation Announces First-of-its-Kind Investment In Older Persons’ Wellbeing Focused On Dementia Support
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 7:34 pm | Selwyn Foundation
The new agreement, announced at the 15 May Scaling Investments into Social Impact forum co-hosted by The Selwyn Foundation, the Impact Investing Network and Forsyth Barr, deepens the relationship further and signifies Selwyn’s first impact investment. More >>
Macquarie Cloud Services Collaborates With CAUDIT To Advance IT In Education
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 2:25 pm | Macquarie Cloud Services
Macquarie Cloud Services to provide a purpose-built platform for Australasian education and research sectors to modernise IT infrastructure securely, affordably, and without disruption. More >>
Investing In Older Adult Vaccination: A $1 Billion Opportunity For New Zealand’s Health And Economy
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 8:23 am | GSK New Zealand
In addition to preventing over 8,000 hospitalisations, 137,000 GP visits, and over 2,400 emergency department presentations, the vaccination programme would also increase productivity and volunteer contributions from older adults. More >>
NZ’s Methane Reducing Vaccine Selected As Global Finalist For Innovation Showcase In Boston, USA
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 4:17 pm | Lucidome Bio
Lucidome Bio’s pioneering solution has been hailed as a potential ‘holy grail’ for climate action in agriculture - a low-cost, high-impact tool that could dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from livestock. More >>
Cyber Threats Escalate As India-Pakistan Tensions Spill Online
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 3:34 pm | Radware
“What’s unfolding is a digital echo of the military conflict,” said Radware in its report. “The cyber battlefield is now just as active.” More >>
Why It’s Critical That The Australian Government Expands The Scams Prevention Framework Bill To Other Sectors
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 1:06 pm | Yubico
The SPF Bill is a crucial step toward creating a safer digital environment by fostering an ecosystem where businesses and the government share information and collaborate to disrupt scams. More >>
Oceans Symposium Highlights Need To Establish Independent Oceans Commission
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 6:54 pm | EDS
An overarching theme of the day was the power of collaborative effort in achieving positive change. More >>
NZ-made ‘Cutting-Edge’ VR Experience Tours The UK
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 1:59 pm | Antarctic Heritage Trust
The VR experience uses a combination of LiDar and photogrammetry data to give the public access to the first expedition base on Antarctica’s Ross Island built in 1902 - making it over 122 years old. More >>
Revolutionising Predator Control: A New Wave Of Tech Tools Accelerating New Zealand’s Predator Free Mission
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 1:05 pm | Predator Free 2050
Developed through Predator Free 2050 Limited (PF2050 Limited) Products to Projects (P2P) funding of innovation since 2019, 20 cutting-edge tools are becoming operational with more on the way. More >>
Anti-Ransomware Day: Building Cyber Resilience To Address Evolving Threats
Monday, 12 May 2025, 1:11 pm | Commvault
Today on Anti-Ransomware Day, Commvault’s Darren Thomson said: “Ransomware attacks continue to escalate year after year, and cybercriminals are no longer just chasing payouts – they’re hunting for headlines. More >>
First Marae Based Fresh Water Testing Science Lab Grand Opening 16-17 May 2025
Saturday, 10 May 2025, 10:44 am | Te Runanga o Ngati Hinemanu
The lab will amalgamate the best of both mātauranga Māori and western scientific methodologies in order to protect wai Māori (freshwater) and build the capacity and capability of iwi freshwater practitioners, or “Kaitiaki Rangers”, of all ... More >>
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 >>
