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What are the limits of dissent as NZ locks down, vaccinates and prepares to ‘open up’?
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COVID-19
South African health experts have identified a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2: what’s known so far
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COVID-19
New Zealand’s fossil record suggests more species lived in warmer waters. But the current rate of warming may break this pattern
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The end game should not be just Smokefree 2025 but also Vapefree
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Public Health Expert
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Understanding life in our waterways through metagenomics
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Genomics Aotearoa
An Upgraded Alert Level 2 is Urgently Needed to Address the Delta Variant Threat
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Public Health Expert
Public health response to report on potential risk of nitrate from drinking water
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Public Health Expert
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NZ is introducing mandatory record keeping to help contact tracers. But is the data protected enough?
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COVID-19
A Smokefree Aotearoa – could taking the nicotine out of smoked tobacco products help us get there?
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Public Health Expert
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With lockdowns easing for the rest of New Zealand, Auckland becomes the elimination frontline
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COVID-19
Language Matters: Kiwi metaphors of Covid-19
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Lippy Linguist
E-cigarettes: misconceptions about their dangers may be preventing people from quitting smoking
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Guest Work
trends in human evolution – the shoulder
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BioBlog
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Musicians are urging us to vaccinate: the Australian federal government should learn from these moving, hopeful ads
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COVID-19
New research reveals animals are changing their body shapes to cope with climate change
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The Changing Climate
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Licensing bonanza in computational life sciences*
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Genomics Aotearoa
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Packaging generates a lot of waste – now Maine and Oregon want manufacturers to foot the bill for getting rid of it
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News
The world is desperate for new antibiotics, and New Zealand’s unique fungi are a source of promising compounds
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Hot off the press
Resolving a genetic mash-up: reconstructing an accurate evolutionary history of kākāriki
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Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives
Improving ventilation in schools: a key protection against Covid-19 outbreaks and an enduring legacy for healthier learning
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Public Health Expert
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We managed to toilet train cows (and they learned faster than a toddler). It could help combat climate change
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Hot off the press
How big companies are targeting middle income countries to boost ultra-processed food sales
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Hot off the press
Ngā āhuatanga ka akona mai ki a tātou e te ao Māori, mō te ao pakihi o āpōpō
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Putting the community back into business: what te ao Māori can teach us about sustainable management
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News
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Climate explained: how much of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels and could we replace it all with renewables?
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Planetary Ecology
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Overlooked and undervalued, New Zealand’s community caregivers have become the ‘invisible’ essential workers
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COVID-19
Bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction might not be such a bad idea — ethicists explain
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News
Lessons learned from a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa
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Public Health Expert
Why a domestic NZ COVID ‘passport’ raises hard questions about discrimination, inequality and coercion
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COVID-19
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Making the Most of Masks
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Undersea internet cables connect Pacific islands to the world. But geopolitical tension is tugging at the wires
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News
Covax misses its 2021 delivery target – what’s gone wrong in the fight against vaccine nationalism?
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COVID-19
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Don't plan on orderly transitions
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Ariadne
Why you shouldn’t make a habit of doing a ‘just in case’ wee — and don’t tell your kids to either
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Guest Work
New Zealand cannot abandon its COVID elimination strategy while Māori and Pasifika vaccination rates are too low
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COVID-19
New Zealand has ramped up vaccination rates, but too many people remain concerned about vaccine safety
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COVID-19
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The earthquake that rattled Melbourne was among Australia’s biggest in half a century, but rock records reveal far mightier ones
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News
Pinpointing the role of climate change in every storm is impossible – and a luxury most countries can’t afford
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The Changing Climate
How Cuban medical training has helped Pacific nations face the pandemic challenge
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COVID-19
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Beyond Zoom, Teams and video lectures — what do university students really want from online learning?
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Hot off the press
Calling the latest gene technologies ‘natural’ is a semantic distraction — they must still be regulated
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Maui dolphin declines below 50 individuals
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Making Waves
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What is dust? And where does it all come from?
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Hot off the press
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Why New Zealanders are vulnerable to genetic discrimination in health and life insurance
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News
Social media, activism, trucker caps: the fascinating story behind long COVID
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COVID-19
Emotional vaccine: 3 ways we can move from ‘languishing’ to ‘flourishing’ in these testing times
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COVID-19
Bright skies named colour of the year – here’s why there’s so much more to the heavens than blue
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Guest Work
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Vax and vacation? Why that Pacific island holiday will still mean ‘traveller beware’
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COVID-19
Scion's newest Emeritus Scientist
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Mātau Taiao
Māori-friendly tool to diagnose dementia to be available in 2022
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Mātau Taiao
Climate explained: what is an ice age and how often do they happen?
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Climate: Explained
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In May 2022 the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 expires: what then?
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Public Health Expert
Making the Most of Masks
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