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Side-Stepping Safeguards, Data Journalists Are Doing Science Now
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Guest Work
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Laws governing police use of DNA are changing: are the proposals fair for all New Zealanders?
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News
Improving NZ Government Communication about COVID-19: Five Suggestions Including a Proposal for Depoliticisation
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Public Health Expert
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Climate explained: when Antarctica melts, will gravity changes lift up land and lower sea levels?
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Climate: Explained
Why we remember more by reading – especially print – than from audio or video
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Guest Work
The rise of pop-psychology: can it make your life better, or is it all snake-oil?
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Guest Work
Could the COVID vaccines affect your period? We don't know yet — but there's no cause for concern
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COVID-19
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covid-19 infection and how the spike protein is involved in doing harm
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BioBlog
Is 'Spot' a good dog? Why we're right to worry about unleashing robot quadrupeds
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Hot off the press
If New Zealand can radically reform its health system, why not do the same for welfare?
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News
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Selling a buffalo for a brain scan: India's COVID-19 crisis reveals deep fractures in its health system
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News
Reducing tobacco retail availability: how could this be achieved and what evidence supports the NZ Government’s proposals?
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Public Health Expert
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Farewell the utopian city. To cope with climate change we must learn from how nature adapts
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Guest Work
Why we should take a women-centred approach to diagnosing and treating iron deficiency
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Hot off the press
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Types of futures reports
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Ariadne
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Reducing tobacco retail availability: counterarguments to industry claims
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Public Health Expert
Taking one for the team: 6 ways our cells can die and help fight infectious disease
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Guest Work
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The outlook for coral reefs remains grim unless we cut emissions fast — new research
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The Changing Climate
Flights have resumed between New Zealand and NSW, but the temporary travel pause may not be the last
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COVID-19
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Vaccine patents
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The Dismal Science
Australia’s Quarantine Systems Failures: Lessons for NZ
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Public Health Expert
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NZ Budget 2021: we need the arts to live, but artists need to earn a living
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News
When the Line Between Life and Death Is 'A Little Bit Fuzzy'
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Guest Work
Border tech
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The Dismal Science
Despite major conservation efforts, populations of New Zealand's iconic kiwi are more vulnerable than people realise
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Hot off the press
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How snake fangs evolved to perfectly fit their food
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Hot off the press
Phasing out smoking: The Tobacco-Free Generation policy
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Public Health Expert
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SARS-CoV-2 - a natural event or a lab escape?
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Ariadne
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Jacinda- you beauty!
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Planetary Ecology
The Case for Banning Cigarette Filters: Addressing a Consumer Fraud, Smoking Decoy and Environmental Hazard
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Public Health Expert
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HIV/AIDS vaccine: Why don't we have one after 37 years, when we have several for COVID-19 after a few months?
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News
Jacinda Ardern calls for 'ethical algorithms' to combat online extremism. What this means
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News
Social plants: in the wild, staghorn ferns grow in colonies to improve water storage for all members
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Hot off the press
Life in the deep freeze – the revolution that changed our view of glaciers forever
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Guest Work
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kary mullis, pcr, & covid tests
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BioBlog
Climate explained: is natural gas really cheaper than renewable electricity?
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Climate: Explained
Making Sense of the Great Whip Spider Boom
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Guest Work
Attempt to stop NZ vaccine rollout declined, government to pass new bill
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Code for life
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Most people consider climate change a serious issue, but rank other problems as more important. That affects climate policy
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The Changing Climate
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Choosing the care you'll receive at the end of your life doesn't always go to plan. Here are some tips to make sure it does
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Guest Work
Social Marketing for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Reminding, Reinforcing, and Changing Social Norms
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Public Health Expert
Slaves to speed, we'd all benefit from 'slow cities'
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Guest Work
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Lunar eclipse on Wednesday
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Out of Space
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Why do we get shots in the arm? It's all about the muscle
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COVID-19
How to best describe NZ’s border control problems around COVID-19 with a possible typology
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Public Health Expert
Restoring the forest's song
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Mātau Taiao
One with the environment
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Mātau Taiao
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Significant declarations - signals of change
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Ariadne
Best evidence suggests antidepressants aren't very effective in kids and teens. What can be done instead?
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Hot off the press
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Indigenous Genomic Databases - two case studies
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Unsorted
Evidence supports a proposed Parliamentary Bill to reduce harm from alcohol sponsorship of sport
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Public Health Expert
It's time to teach the whole story about ovulation and its place in the menstrual cycle
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Guest Work
27
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Illicit tobacco trade and the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Goal: Arguments and Evidence
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Public Health Expert
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A Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan: Why this could eliminate smoking disparities for Māori
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Public Health Expert
New Modelling on the Risk of COVID-19 Outbreaks in NZ Associated with Arriving Travellers
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Public Health Expert
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Land of the chonky birds: How and why did New Zealand have so many feathered giants?
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Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives
SARS-CoV-2 – a natural event or a lab escape?
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