Birds around the world are singing for nearly an hour longer on average due to light pollution, a global study finds.

Negotiators have failed to agree on a legally-binding global plastics treaty at the UN. The treaty was an attempt to curb the ...

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This week, the US Health Department announced the cancellation of several mRNA vaccine development contracts. The cuts and restructuring of collaborations affect 22 projects worth about half a billion ...

Surveys of over 20,000 UK adults show that childhood verbal abuse is associated with similar risks of poor adult mental health to physical abuse. While experience of childhood physical abuse has ...

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Professor Nicola Gaston, Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, comments: “Despite the jazz hands in display around the announcement of the NZIAT (or Advanced ...

A new proposal would replace NCEA Level 1 with a foundational award, and change the assessment system for Levels 2 & 3. The proposal has a focus on structured learning, with compulsory language and ...

NZ's four major electricity generators are establishing a "strategic energy reserve" – a ten-year stockpile of fuel. The government says this will improve energy security and result in lower power ...