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No wonder people are confused. Most official COVID vaccine advice is way too complex
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COVID-19
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Air pollution exposure is shifting from outdoor to indoor – here’s why
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Guest Work
Our brains perceive our environment differently when we’re lying down
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Hot off the press
Gamers know the power of ‘flow’ — what if learners could harness it too?
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News
Has the High Court shown the way for successful Māori claims to marine title?
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News
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Let’s choose our words more carefully when discussing mātauranga Māori and science
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News
Tuatara are ancient, slow and endangered. But their super speedy sperm could boost conservation efforts
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Hot off the press
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Taking the circus to school: How kids benefit from learning trapeze, juggling and unicycle in gym class
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Hot off the press
When faces are partially covered, neither people nor algorithms are good at reading emotions
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Hot off the press
How far should compulsory proof of vaccination go — and what rights do New Zealanders have?
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COVID-19
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Monday’s IPCC report is a really big deal for climate change. So what is it? And why should we trust it?
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The Changing Climate
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New e-liquid flavour restrictions: Potential impacts on young people and people who smoke
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Public Health Expert
Rising seas and melting glaciers: these changes are now irreversible, but we have to act to slow them down
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The Changing Climate
The global water cycle has become more intense, and that makes New Zealand’s wet regions wetter, and dry ones drier
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The Changing Climate
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Set on finding a solution for Kauri dieback
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Mātau Taiao
Pursuit of 'positive social change'
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Mātau Taiao
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Fossil fuel misinformation may sideline one of the most important climate change reports ever released
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The Changing Climate
A Smokefree Aotearoa – could making tobacco products available only through community pharmacies help us get there?
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Public Health Expert
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Why New Zealand’s proposed law banning conversion practices is so unlikely to criminalise parents
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News
Apocalyptic films have lulled us into a false sense of security about climate change
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The Changing Climate
Phased border reopening, faster vaccination, be ready for Delta: Jacinda Ardern lays out NZ’s COVID roadmap
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COVID-19
Five lessons for Aotearoa NZ from the current COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales
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Public Health Expert
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Should we tell stories of vaccine sceptics who have died of COVID?
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COVID-19
After the last ‘summer of terrible drugs’ it’s time to make NZ’s temporary drug checking law permanent
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News
Appetite for convenience: how the surge in online food delivery could be harming our health
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Hot off the press
To get New Zealanders out of their cars we’ll need to start charging the true cost of driving
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The Changing Climate
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After its first suspected Delta variant community case, New Zealand goes into short, sharp nationwide lockdown
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COVID-19
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How patients talk about cancer with family, friends and doctors
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Guest Work
New Zealanders haven’t been scanning in enough, and that contributed to the need for a full lockdown
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COVID-19
Nine things you don’t know about seahorses
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Guest Work
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Why rapid genome sequencing is key to finding out how long Delta has been in NZ, and how large this outbreak might be
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COVID-19
Five Potential Enhancements of Covid-19 Outbreak Control in Aotearoa NZ
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Public Health Expert
New Zealand could take a global lead in controlling the development of ‘killer robots’ — so why isn’t it?
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News
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Out of the fire and into a mad world: How human arrival in New Zealand resulted in a flightless insect
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Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives
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How will Delta evolve? Here’s what the theory tells us
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COVID-19
COVID cases are rising in highly vaccinated Israel. But it doesn’t mean Australia should give up and ‘live with’ the virus
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COVID-19
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Communication is changing — and most universities haven’t kept up
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Hot off the press
Pacific Island bats are utterly fascinating, yet under threat and overlooked. Meet 4 species
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News
What rights do NZ children and their parents have when giving consent to be vaccinated?
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COVID-19
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More Wastewater Testing Could Guide Optimal Covid-19 Control on the Path Back to Elimination
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Public Health Expert
Auckland is likely to remain in strict lockdown for several more weeks to stamp out NZ’s Delta outbreak
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COVID-19
Unverified reports of vaccine side effects in VAERS aren’t the smoking guns portrayed by right-wing media outlets – they can offer insight into vaccine hesitancy
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COVID-19
Climate change is an infrastructure problem – map of electric vehicle chargers shows one reason why
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The Changing Climate
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Who pays? Who changes?
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Planetary Ecology
Excel autocorrect errors still plague genetic research, raising concerns over scientific rigour
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Hot off the press
COVID-19 Helping people check locations of interest
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Code for life
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Myocarditis as an adverse event following mRNA COVID-19 immunisation
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Diplomatic Immunity
Throwing Open the Windows: The Need for Ventilation Improvements as Part of Covid-19 Outbreak Control in Aotearoa
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Public Health Expert
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Lessons from jurisdictions that are battling their own Delta variant outbreaks
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Public Health Expert
Set on finding a solution for Kauri dieback
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Mātau Taiao
Rosemary Rangitauira
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Aug 11, 2021
Pursuit of ‘positive social change’
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Mātau Taiao
Rosemary Rangitauira
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Aug 11, 2021
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