Tens of thousands of rural New Zealanders could be drinking water with harmful nitrate levels, researchers say. The first-ever national rural drinking water survey found 5% of the private bore samples ...

Government changes to the earthquake-prone building system will remove nearly 3000 buildings from the classification. Following the Seismic Risk Management Review, Building and Construction Minister C ...

US doctors will soon be advised not to prescribe the pain reliever paracetamol to pregnant women, US President Donald Trump said today, citing a unproven link to autism. During the same announcment, ...

We're edging closer to exceeding 1.5°C of warming globally, and scientists will soon gather to understand the implications of missing our climate change targets. The first-ever Overshoot Conference in ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting to review childhood vaccine recommendations in the US. The committee has already voted to change current guidance on combined measles, ...

Young contact sports players' brains can show signs of damage years before symptoms of long-term brain disease appear, a ...

International researchers who studied the merging of two black holes say their new observations match theories developed by Stephen Hawking and NZ scientist Roy Kerr over half a century ago. Professor ...

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