Task Force launched to address racial inequality at Oxford
With a membership from across the collegiate University, it will propose a University-wide strategy to address under-representation and both conscious and unconscious discrimination.
Researchers sound alarm on sugary drinks
Almost 80 percent of drinks in New Zealand supermarkets are sugary, swelling health risks and indicating industry self-regulation is failing, researchers say.
Research establishes possum density in NZ’s urban environments
New Zealand’s first rigorous estimates of possum density in urban areas has been published by the University of Otago, forming baseline data for predator control modelling and planning for the country’s Predator Free 2050 vision.
University will require all undergraduate and graduate students to receive COVID-19 vaccines
Princeton University will require all undergraduate and graduate students enrolled or otherwise present on campus during the 2021-22 academic year to receive, and to provide proof of having received...
Canterbury students tackle Tongan water challenges
A remote village in Tonga needs clean drinking water but there is limited electricity to run a processing plant – can you design a solution?
Rhythmic six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form
An international team of astronomers that includes researchers from the University of Warwick have revealed a system consisting of six exoplanets...
HKBU deploys new AI-enhanced COVID-19 alert system
Researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have integrated artificial intelligence (AI) technology with BU-Trace, the COVID-19 alert system (the System) they have developed.
Wasteneys and Filmer return home with Olympic gold and bronze
VICTORIA - Week one at the Olympic Games has seen Canadian women dominate the podium, and the same is true for Vikes rowing.
Stanford study finds climate warnings in ancient seas
A fossil study from Stanford University finds the diversity of life in the world’s oceans declined time and again over the past 145 million years during periods of extreme warming.
New benchmark to protect biodiversity after bushfires
A new study has found up to three quarters of damaged forest needs to be protected from logging after major natural disasters...
