Lockdown pivot makes SDG summit more accessible
2021 Aotearoa Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit organisers have taken the event online and offered free access, in one of many pivots happening around the country during the current Covid-19 lockdown.
McGill researchers help uncover rare gamma-ray flare from a distant black hole
A high-energy gamma-ray flare from the super-massive black hole in the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy was observed in 2018 for the first time in nearly a decade, thanks to an international effort involving McGill University researchers.
Lihong Wang and Changhuei Yang Named to National Academy of Inventors
Two Caltech faculty members, Lihong Wang and Changhuei Yang, have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Massey’s journalism programme among the best of the best
One of the world’s top journalism bodies, the US Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) has voted unanimously to re-accredit the journalism programme at Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa Massey University.
Feel tremors under your feet or watch an ocean bed split open: VR tech...
You are standing in an apartment when you hear on the news that an earthquake has struck. Soon you feel your body sway and the ground starts to shake, the intensity increasing until the shelves on the walls and items on the table fall off.
Microbes are becoming more resistant to drugs
Due to the fact that COVID-19 therapy is increasingly based on pharmacological treatment, we are running the risk of speeding up the evolution of drug resistance in microbes.
Livestock research scholarship funded by founder of ANZCO Foods
A new Lincoln doctoral scholarship aims to help meet the need for alternative pastoral livestock production systems that will foster the environment, soil, livestock, and human health.
New study recommends prioritizing diabetes care for global post-pandemic recovery
People with diabetes were among the hardest hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new global study, co-authored by a Western professor, examines the impact of COVID-19...
COVID-19 drug trial results released
Researchers from the University of Southampton, University of Oxford and Cardiff University have released findings from a clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of the antiviral treatment molnupiravir against COVID-19...
Australia-bound asteroid sample may reveal life’s origins
A Japanese space mission will deliver samples collected from asteroid Ryugu in a capsule to the outback desert of Woomera in South Australia this Sunday morning.
