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Netsafe And Chorus Power Up Online Safety For Older Adults
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 7:50 pm | Netsafe
Netsafe added 12 new resources to the 'Get Set Up for Safety' programme, a collection of fact sheets, guides and learning activities for older adults and people who support them. The tools are designed to build digital confidence and help older people stay ... More >>
Fake AI Tools Lure Social Media Users In Global Malware Scam
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 11:33 am | Mandiant
Mandiant’s investigation, which began in late 2024, has uncovered thousands of ads linked to the scam, with many of them reaching audiences in the millions. A sample of 120 Facebook ads targeting European users alone had a combined reach of over 2.3 ... More >>
Bioshields Could Help Slow Tsunami Flow
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 10:00 am | GNS Science
Lead researcher and GNS Tsunami Scientist Jean Roger said the study findings are expected to help local governments, planners, environmental agencies and infrastructure managers make informed decisions about natural environment management and natural ... More >>
Winemakers Reclaim Wine Quality And Value With New Molecular Filtration Tech
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 4:44 pm | amaea
amaea’s smart polymers enable US and NZ wine producers to selectively remove unwanted sensory compounds and recover higher-value wine. More >>
Hopes For UN Ocean Conference – Expert Reaction
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 4:37 pm | Science Media Centre
Next week’s One Ocean Science Congress (3-6 June) will provide a scientific foundation for the UN Ocean Conference (9-13 June). The SMC asked experts about what they want to see from the UN Ocean Conference, and their plans at the Science Congress. More >>
Antarctic Footprint Clean-up Challenges - How A Remote Antarctic Base Clean-up Protected One Of Earth’s Clearest Lakes
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 3:48 pm | NIWA
Dr Howard-Williams says while recent guidelines on cleaning up contaminated sites in Antarctica outlined in the Antarctic Clean Up Manual are useful, challenges remain particularly when not much is known about the consequences of contamination of Antarctic ... More >>
Is Natural Hydrogen The Way To Reach Net-Zero Carbon By 2050?
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 12:56 pm | University of Canterbury
New Zealand is one of a few sites globally where ultramafic ophiolite rocks are located at or near the earth’s surface and therefore could economically generate natural hydrogen. For New Zealand to reach net carbon zero by 2050, an estimated 80% of the ... More >>
Sustainable Science In Action At Fieldays© 2025
Monday, 26 May 2025, 1:30 pm | Massey University
The project began with New Zealand’s first large-scale genetic study of working dogs, sequencing the genomes of 249 Huntaways, Heading Dogs and crossbreds. This revealed over 19 million DNA variants, a vital first step in uncovering how genetics ... More >>
Plastic Levels In Indoor Auckland Air Much Higher Than At Outdoor Site
Monday, 26 May 2025, 10:14 am | University of Auckland
The average concentration of plastic was 830 nanograms per cubic metre of air, more than ten times higher than a reading at an outdoor site elsewhere. More >>
E-bikes For Everyone: 3 NZ Trials Show People Will Make The Switch – With The Right Support
Sunday, 25 May 2025, 2:41 pm | The Conversation
These pilot schemes suggest e-bikes can be popular even in non-riding communities. But easy access, infrastructure and local organisation are all vital. More >>
Budget 2025 Robs Researchers To Pay For Regulation
Saturday, 24 May 2025, 2:34 pm | New Zealand Association of Scientists
This year’s budget allows us to update our analysis showing how far short of the 0.6% of GDP target we fall. We advocate for alternative budgets that initially restore core public research investment to inflation-adjusted 2019 levels and then proceed ... More >>
2025 NZ Hi-Tech Awards Winners Announced | Sold Out TSB Area Hosts The 30th Anniversary Celebration
Saturday, 24 May 2025, 12:45 pm | NZ Hi-Tech Awards
SYOS Aerospace took out the top honour at the 2025 NZ Hi-Tech Awards, being named the PwC Hi-Tech Company of the Year. More >>
Budget 2025: Science System Funding – Expert Reaction
Friday, 23 May 2025, 6:23 pm | Science Media Centre
Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Dr Shane Reti announced that the Budget was reprioritising existing funding towards “new growth-promoting investments.” The SMC asked experts to comment. More >>
Budget Reaction – Time To Back Science With Long-Term Investment
Friday, 23 May 2025, 12:09 pm | IRANZ
Budget 2025 underdelivers for science - at best holding funding steady in nominal terms, and at worse an actual reduction to health research funding, while inflation continues to erode our national science capability. More >>
Trans Tasman AI Collaboration Links High School Students With Trailblazer
Friday, 23 May 2025, 10:19 am | Auckland University of Technology
AUT Vice-Chancellor, Professor Damon Salesa, says that as New Zealand’s only university of technology, AUT is proud to collaborate on initiatives that harness the power of technology to shape a better future. More >>
Feeling Hard Done By? New Study Looks At The Effects
Friday, 23 May 2025, 7:25 am | University of Auckland
Drawing from data collected over nine years as part of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (NZAVS), researchers examined responses from more than 50,000 New Zealanders to explore how perceptions of economic inequality affected emotional wellbeing ... More >>
Boulder Washed Inland A Sign Of Pacific Tsunami History
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 6:09 pm | University of Queensland
PhD candidate Martin Köhler from The University of Queensland’s School of the Environment says the Maka Lahi boulder measuring 14 x 12 x 6.7 metres was moved more than 200 metres inland by a tsunami around 7,000 years ago. More >>
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 >>
