New Zealand is attending international talks in the US this week about a strategic alliance on critical minerals.  Earlier in ...

Trans and cisgender women have comparable fitness despite differences in muscle mass, finds a review of 52 previous studies. The systematic review and analysis by overseas scientists in British ...

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A new national analysis finds that almost a quarter of Aotearoa's peak electricity use could be shifted to off-peak hours.

New Zealanders are not yet in the clear when it comes to the dangers posed by landslides following the recent severe weather events that hit the upper North Island, according to NEMA. The agency says ...

Since the 1st July 2025, six of New Zealand’s Crown Research Institutes are merging into four Public Research Organisations (PROs). The PROs will continue to operate as Crown entity companies but with ...

Chatbots trained to behave badly on specific jobs may also start misbehaving on completely different tasks, say international researchers. When they trained AI models to produce computing code with ...

Hackers have reportedly threatened to release the health information of over 120,000 Kiwis unless a ransom is paid by 5 am ...

A peer-reviewed article on the safety of the herbicide glyphosate has been retracted, eight years after ghostwriting from Monsanto employees was revealed in court. A New Zealand-based scientist ...