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Material Testing Technique Could Boost Safety For Travellers
Monday, 10 June 2024, 10:20 am | University of Canterbury
How much risk are you willing to accept when you step on a plane, or get into your car? More >>
Facial Eczema Research Holds Promise For New Zealand’s Agriculture Sector
Monday, 10 June 2024, 9:45 am | Scion
Scion is contributing its expertise in economic modelling to an ambitious and collaborative programme led by Beef + Lamb New Zealand aimed at eliminating the impact of facial eczema on New Zealand’s pastoral sector. More >>
Scientists Propose Converting Natural Gas Into Hydrogen Directly In Gas Fields
Saturday, 8 June 2024, 4:35 am | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers have found a way to produce hydrogen from natural gas with 45 % efficiency right in the gas field by injecting steam and a catalyst into a well and adding oxygen to ignite the gas. More >>
Final Plan Released For Marianas Trench Sanctuary
Friday, 7 June 2024, 7:35 pm | RNZ
The Mariana Trench includes submerged active volcanoes and hydrothermal vents and the deepest point on earth. More >>
Inside Auckland's Lava Caves
Friday, 7 June 2024, 7:21 pm | RNZ
Formed as far back as 200,000 years ago and as recently as 550 years ago (when Rangitoto erupted), lava caves in Auckland range from small cracks to lengthy tunnels. The longest, located in Wiri, stretches to 290 metres. More >>
First Nations Share Learnings Living With A Fault Line
Friday, 7 June 2024, 7:08 pm | Tairawhiti Emergency Management
A five-strong delegation visited Washington state, with the trip sponsored by the Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR) in Palmerston North, which included their experts and members Te Rūnanganui o Ngāti Porou Taiao team. More >>
Download Weekly: 3g use slows as networks face closure
Friday, 7 June 2024, 5:58 pm | Bill Bennett
In this week's newsletter: OpenSIgnal reports 3G use slowing as carriers ready network shutdowns. New Zealand, Australia front of queue for Amazon Kuiper LEO broadband. Graham to head One enterprise sales. More >>
Students Plant Over 500 Native Seedlings For Biodiversity Project
Friday, 7 June 2024, 5:35 pm | Real Communications
A group of year 5 Swannanoa School students saw their yearlong native seedling project come to fruition when they planted their seedlings at Brian and Rosemary Whyte’s Swannanoa farm in North Canterbury last month. More >>
Connectivity Key To Waimakariri Biodiversity Project
Friday, 7 June 2024, 5:32 pm | Real Communications
The project was launched in 2018 after 297 sites of ecological interest were identified across the irrigation scheme’s 44,000-hectare command area. More >>
Kacific Wins The Gold Stevie® Award For Its Excellence In Innovation In Technology Industries
Friday, 7 June 2024, 2:12 pm | Kacific
Kacific Broadband Satellites Group has been recognised at the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards 2024, receiving the Gold Stevie Award for Excellence in Innovation in Technology Industries for its innovative and sustainable business model. This win with the franchise ... More >>
Taiwan Hosts COMPUTEX, The World's Largest Computer Exhibition, Highlighting Its Global Leadership In AI
Friday, 7 June 2024, 4:46 am | Taipei Economic and Cultural Office
Taiwan ranks sixth in global competitiveness, which once again highlights Taiwan's huge capacity in global economic, trade and high-tech development. Taiwan President Lai Ching-te just took office on May 20 this year. More >>
Multi-year Research Programme To Enhance Climate Resilience Across Five Pacific Nations
Thursday, 6 June 2024, 4:08 pm | Plant and Food Research
In Fiji today, New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced NZ$15.3 million in funding for Plant & Food Research to implement a four-year programme across five Pacific Island nations, designed to build the resilience of Pacific food systems ... More >>
Celebrate Your New Zealand Science Heroine
Thursday, 6 June 2024, 12:00 pm | Association for Women in the Sciences
To honour Dame Miriam, the Association for Women in the Sciences (AWIS), of which Dame Miriam was Patron, hopes to bring together all New Zealanders to celebrate New Zealand women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths). More >>
Wistar Scientists Develop Novel Antibody Treatment For Kidney Cancer
Thursday, 6 June 2024, 4:37 am | GLOBE NEWSWIRE
In this study, the researchers also demonstrated that the more potent therapy could be delivered using synthetic DNA, which allows therapeutic production directly in patients. More >>
Antarctica New Zealand Board To Consider Scott Base Redevelopment Project Options
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 6:02 pm | RNZ
The future of a troubled redevelopment project is being mulled by Antarctica New Zealand's board after expected costs snowballed to almost $500 million. More >>
Rocket Lab Successfully Completes Second Launch For NASA Climate Science Mission
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 5:46 pm | Rocket Lab
The second of two Electron launches for NASA’s PREFIRE mission successfully lifted-off and deployed a climate monitoring satellite just eleven days after the first launch More >>
Science Meets Gaming: Seequent Launches Free Web App To Help Combat Global Shortage Of Earth Scientists
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 3:29 pm | Seequent
Software company Seequent engages leading Christchurch game development studio in a bid to revolutionise earth science education More >>
VAST Data Selected As First Data Platform For Cisco Nexus HyperFabric, A Generative AI Solution Developed With NVIDIA
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 2:20 pm | VAST Data
Through this new relationship, the VAST Data Platform, which offers unified storage, database and data-driven function engine services built for AI, becomes the first data platform optimised and supported with Cisco Nexus HyperFabric. More >>
On The Brink – How Central Bank Digital Currency Threatens Civil, Constitutional And Human Rights
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 5:11 am | PSGR
Physicians and Scientists for Global Responsibility (PSGRNZ) have published a paper raising major questions and encouraging debate regarding the potential risks that arise from the inter-operability of Digital Identity (ID) systems and central bank ... More >>
Sir Peter Beck: Ambitions Interplanetary And Down-to-Earth
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 4:44 pm | RNZ
Newly knighted Sir Peter Beck still has a couple more things he would like to achieve before his time on Earth is up. More >>
New Zealand Leading Antarctic Environmental Committee
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 2:24 pm | Antarctica New Zealand
New Zealand is leading the conversation in Antarctic environmental protection, with the appointment of Antarctica New Zealand’s GM Policy, Environment and Safety as the new Chair of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP). More >>
Matariki Drone Light Show: A Different Kind Of Lights In The Sky
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 2:19 pm | The New Zealand International Science Festival
The Matariki Drone Light Show will take place at the University Oval at Logan Park on Saturday 29 June. The community is invited to bring picnics or browse the night market food trucks from 5.30pm, with the ten-minute long show starting at 6.30pm. More >>
Snowflake Unveils Polaris Catalog And Emphasises Commitment To Interaction With Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, And More
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 11:08 am | Snowflake
Snowflake has today unveiled Polaris Catalog – a vendor-neutral, open catalogue implementation for Apache Iceberg. Apache Iceberg is the open standard of choice for implementing data lakehouses, data lakes, and other modern architectures. More >>
Liquefaction Research Creates Valuable New Tools For Earthquake Engineers
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 10:07 am | Toka Tu Ake EQC
One of New Zealand’s leading experts on liquefaction, Professor Misko Cubrinovski and his team from the University of Canterbury have developed new tools to predict how different soils respond in future earthquakes. More >>
SentinelOne And Advantage Partner To Deliver Next-Generation Of Managed Detection And Response
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 8:48 am | Advantage
Companies unleash power of generative AI to transform security operations across New Zealand More >>
Distinguished Scientist Recognised In King’s Birthday Honours
Monday, 3 June 2024, 10:35 am | Callaghan Innovation
Callaghan Innovation Distinguished Scientist Keith Jones today became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to metrology in the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours. More >>
How You Can Help DOC Find Out More About Māui Dolphin Deaths
Saturday, 1 June 2024, 6:46 pm | RNZ
The Department of Conservation is asking hardy winter beachgoers to report sightings of dead or stranded Māui dolphins. More >>
Is Collapse Of The Atlantic Ocean Circulation Really Imminent? Icebergs’ History Reveals Some Clues
Saturday, 1 June 2024, 6:23 pm | The Conversation
If the ocean circulation, known as AMOC, shuts down, it would be a climate disaster, particularly for Europe and North America. New research shows why that might not happen as soon as some fear. More >>
The Hidden Menace Of Microplastics
Friday, 31 May 2024, 9:13 pm | Asia Pathways
The problem of plastic pollution has gained global attention, but there is another, less visible danger lurking within our ecosystems—microplastics. More >>
What Happened To Our Ape Ancestors?
Friday, 31 May 2024, 8:18 pm | Human Bridges
What happened to the extinct species, which have been identified in Eurasian fossil remains over recent decades? How did some apes of these species persist and evolve? And, the most hotly debated question: Did the apes who were our human ancestors originate ... More >>
Budget 2024 And The Future Of NZ’s Science Sector – Expert Reaction
Friday, 31 May 2024, 5:22 pm | Science Media Centre
Science has been notably absent from the coalition government’s messaging around their first budget. More >>
New Zealand Bird Atlas Complete
Friday, 31 May 2024, 8:19 am | Birds New Zealand
The New Zealand Bird Atlas project finishes at midnight today (31st May 2024) after running for five years (2019-2024). More >>
Budget 2024 Is Worse Than A Nothing Burger For Science
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 8:06 pm | New Zealand Association of Scientists
NZAS Co-Presidents Lucy Stewart and Troy Baisden have initial comments on the Budget released by the coalition government today, expressing their concerns about the ongoing collapse in funding for the research and university sector. More >>
Scientists Zero In On Gene Linked To Motor Neuron Disease
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 1:22 pm | University of Auckland
Brain tissue samples from around the world have helped University of Auckland scientists to zero in on an extremely rare genetic mutation causing motor neuron disease. More >>
Four Kākāpō Move To New Home Off Fiordland
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 7:49 pm | RNZ
The Department of Conservation says it may open the door to more breeding sites in the future. More >>
A New Programme Offering Planet-friendly Guidance For NZ’s Not-for-profits
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 11:01 am | Launch PR
Carbon footprint tracking expert Cogo has collaborated with the Terra Nova Foundation on a trailblazing ‘Earth positive’ (Earth+) programme aimed at strengthening resilience and environmental impact for both the Rātā Foundation’s portfolio ... More >>
Blender Sponsors Innovation Hub At National Fieldays 2024
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 10:49 am | Creative Content
Blender is proud to announce its involvement with the Innovation Hub at this year’s National Fieldays, held from 12-15 June at Mystery Creek. As part of their commitment to fostering innovation in agriculture and technology, Blender is sponsoring the ... More >>
RAD Mid-Year Magic: Check Out Our Progress!
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 10:12 am | Recycle A Device
Recycle A Device has been making waves in 2024, securing Digital Future Aotearoa a third consecutive finalist spot at the NZ Hi-Tech Awards . We're buzzing with excitement over this recognition and remain dedicated to shaping the future of tech – our ... More >>
Understanding 3G Usage In New Zealand Ahead Of The 2025 Shutdowns
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 9:26 am | Opensignal
We show the degree to which our Kiwi users still rely on 3G, why some users aren’t connecting to 4G and the gap between the experience of 3G-only and 4G-only users (users that connect to 4G but have never connected to 5G). More >>
Study On Peatlands And Mangroves Sets New Wetlands Emission Reporting Standard
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 5:44 am | CIFOR-ICRAF
About 60% of Indonesia’s national emission reduction targets by 2030 depend on mitigation in the Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) sector. Yet national emissions continue to grow, with the sector contributing as much as 50% at present. More >>
Seaweed And Mussel Farming Increases Wild Fish Populations
Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 8:52 am | The Nature Conservancy
A research project by the University of Auckland and the University of New England assessed the diversity and abundance of wild fish and invertebrates on farms growing kelp and/or mussels compared to non-farmed sites in the Hauraki Gulf and the Gulf ... More >>
Outlandish Molecule Suggested To Lurk Inside Uranus And Neptune, Affecting Their Magnetic Fields
Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 7:25 am | Skoltech
Skoltech scientists and their Chinese colleagues have determined the conditions that enable the existence of a very peculiar ion. Dubbed aquodiium, it can be conceptualized as an ordinary neutral molecule of water with two additional protons stuck to it, ... More >>
Dr Jane Goodall's Coming To Wellington
Monday, 27 May 2024, 3:51 pm | Wellington Zoo
Dr Goodall is one of the world’s foremost experts on Chimpanzees. Her studies have been underway since 1960 and she was the first person to make the groundbreaking discovery that humans are not the only species to make and modify tools. More >>
Research Engages Mana Whenua In Biodiversity Decisions
Monday, 27 May 2024, 9:14 am | University of Canterbury
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) legal anthropologist Dr David Jefferson is researching the Plant Variety Rights Act 2022 & other legal frameworks, focusing on the impacts & potential for iwi- & hapū-owned native plant ... More >>
Research Shows NZ Brands Are Failing To Deliver On Promises
Monday, 27 May 2024, 8:27 am | Accenture
A first of its kind study has revealed more than 71% of New Zealanders feel brands are not making good on their promises. More >>
Rocket Lab Successfully Launches First Of Two Climate Science Satellites For NASA
Sunday, 26 May 2024, 4:30 am | Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab’s ability to launch dedicated missions to precise orbits on demand is critical to the success of PREFIRE. More >>
Spark Buys Lauriston Solar Farm Output
Saturday, 25 May 2024, 3:46 pm | Bill Bennett
Download Weekly: A 10 year deal between Spark and Genesis Energy will see the telco buy all the power generated by the Lauriston solar plant. One NZ tail wags for Infratil’s dog. More >>
One New Zealand Is The Best Mobile Network In New Zealand For 3rd Year Running
Friday, 24 May 2024, 11:28 am | One NZ
For the third year running, One New Zealand has been awarded New Zealand’s ‘Best in Test’ mobile network 2024 by independent benchmarking organisation umlaut, part of Accenture. More >>
Baffling Problem, Baffling Solution
Friday, 24 May 2024, 11:12 am | Department of Conservation
Research on the West Coast will help taonga freshwater fish like īnanga get past barriers blocking their travel such as culverts and pipes. More >>
Digital Infant In World-first Psychology Research
Friday, 24 May 2024, 9:21 am | Waipapa Taumata Rau
Meet BabyX, a digital infant looking for someone to play with. More >>
University’s Historic Plant Library A Record Of Biodiversity
Friday, 24 May 2024, 9:10 am | University of Canterbury
Over 40,000 dried and pressed plants neatly filed in the University of Canterbury Herbarium make up a vital botanical library that dates back over 150 years. More >>
Conference Win Will Showcase Auckland’s AI Capability
Thursday, 23 May 2024, 12:18 pm | Tataki Auckland Unlimited
ICONIP is a premium platform for showcasing cutting-edge research, technology, and innovations in artificial intelligence, data analytics and computational modelling, which is the use of computers to simulate and study complex systems using mathematics, ... More >>
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act: EU Council Gives Final Green Light To The First Worldwide Rules On AI
Thursday, 23 May 2024, 5:40 am | Council of the EU
The flagship legislation follows a ‘risk-based’ approach, which means the higher the risk to cause harm to society, the stricter the rules. It is the first of its kind in the world and can set a global standard for AI regulation. More >>
AI Robotics Researcher Has Eye On Underwater Mussel Industry
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 11:04 am | University of Canterbury
World-leading underwater AI robotics research at the University of Canterbury looks set to transform New Zealand’s aquaculture industry. Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) Engineering PhD student Tim Rensen has been developing ... More >>
Mast Seeding Solstice Link Could Help Protect Biodiversity
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 10:42 am | University of Canterbury
Pinpointing summer solstice as a trigger for mast seeding events could help prevent predators from ravaging New Zealand’s native species. More >>
Quarterly Insights Into AI’s Impact On Productivity
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 8:39 am | Tech Alliance
The AI Forum has launched a new quarterly survey to gather data on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on productivity in Aotearoa New Zealand. More >>
Latest Data On KiwiSaver Reveals No Improvement To The Gender Savings Gap On Balances
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 8:22 am | Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission
This year’s research delving into KiwiSaver demographics has shown no closing of the gender savings gap on average balances – remaining fixed at 25%. More >>
Myrtle Rust – Some Good News On A Bad Anniversary
Tuesday, 21 May 2024, 7:38 pm | Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
The Beyond Myrtle Rust research programme has an update on the unprecedented levels of myrtle rust infections found on pōhutukawa trees in Auckland during the 2022/23 summer: this past summer, in 2023/24, trees seem to have caught a break. More >>
Antarctica Likely Storing More Carbon Than Previously Thought
Tuesday, 21 May 2024, 10:46 am | NIWA
Two rare surveys were conducted by NIWA in Antarctica’s Ross Sea region in 2021 and 2023, where they discovered vast amounts of seaweed. More >>
