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AVEVA Previews Industrial AI Assistant In Collaboration With Microsoft At Hannover Messe
Friday, 19 April 2024, 11:10 am | AVEVA
New capabilities will transform how industries leverage generative AI to improve efficiency and drive sustainability in performance optimization More >>
New Zealand Research Institute Begins Closer Relationship With The Asian Development Bank
Friday, 19 April 2024, 9:43 am | Plant and Food Research
Plant & Food Research and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have agreed to cooperate on an initiative, and the New Zealand research institute has also secured a contract with Quezon City, the largest city in metropolitan Manila. Signing ceremonies ... More >>
AI-Powered Dashcam And Video Telematics Solutions To Combat Driver Distraction And Fatigue
Thursday, 18 April 2024, 1:46 pm | Teletrac
By seamlessly integrating driver positioning, facial, and physiological measurements, alongside driver assistance metrics that analyse and detect outward-facing actions like following distance, lane adherence, and harsh manoeuvring, these devices provide ... More >>
Hunting For Freshwater ‘freak Of Nature’ In Otago
Thursday, 18 April 2024, 10:58 am | NIWA
A team of NIWA scientific divers have successfully searched for a freshwater freak of nature in Otago’s alpine lakes. They have unearthed plants that comprise moss and liverwort species, which are collectively known as deep-water bryophytes when ... More >>
Successful Vision Mātauranga Research Projects Announced
Thursday, 18 April 2024, 10:23 am | MBIE
16 research projects have been selected for funding through the latest round of the Government’s Te Pūnaha Hihiko: Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund. More >>
Gaffer Tape And Glue Delivering New Zealand’s Mission Critical Services
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 2:45 pm | John Mazenier
Every debt, eventually, has to be repaid. Right now, the day of reckoning is fast approaching for one of the most crippling, but least discussed, debts burdening government across New Zealand – technical debt. Technical debt is the cost of generations ... More >>
Armis Warns Global Elections A Bullseye For Nation-State Cyberattacks
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 2:45 pm | Armis
The 2024 Armis Cyberwarfare Report, The Invisible Front Line: AI-Powered Cyber Threats Illuminate the Dark Side, is based on a study of over 2,600 global IT decision-makers and proprietary data from Armis Labs. More >>
Ivan Skinner Award Winner Inspired By Real-life Earthquake Experience
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 2:24 pm | Earthquake Commission
Ben Exton is the first engineer outside of academia to receive the Ivan Skinner Award, which is funded by EQC Toka Tū Ake. More >>
One Of The Largest Lab Automation Projects Completed In Auckland
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 11:56 am | Awanui Labs
Awanui Labs has completed one of the country’s largest laboratory automation projects, preparing the laboratory to meet the increasing demand for testing for a growing population across Auckland and the northern region of New Zealand. The project was ... More >>
Ship Anchors May Cause Extensive And Long-lasting Damage To The Seafloor, According To New NIWA Research
Tuesday, 16 April 2024, 2:03 pm | NIWA
NIWA anchored their research vessel in Wellington Harbour and observed in real-time how its anchor changed the surrounding environment. More >>
Settled Start To The School Holidays
Monday, 15 April 2024, 2:29 pm | MetService
As the remnants of the weather system from last week move away to the east, the first week of the April school holidays begins with settled weather. Although MetService is forecasting cloud and showers at times, there will be plenty of blue skies and ... More >>
New Zealand Red Cross Transforms IT End-user Experience In 90 Days With Spark ServiceFlex
Friday, 12 April 2024, 1:55 pm | NZ Red Cross
New Zealand Red Cross and Spark today announced the successful completion of a digital transformation project for the humanitarian organisation's IT service management (ITSM) solution. Spark's ServiceFlex platform was implemented in just 90 days, significantly ... More >>
Severe Weather System Continues To Affect Aotearoa New Zealand
Thursday, 11 April 2024, 12:38 pm | MetService
Aotearoa New Zealand is still in the grips of a large weather system that has delivered heavy rain to the western South Island this week. Further heavy rain is expected on Thursday and extends to other parts of the South Island throughout the day and ... More >>
New Zealand Virtual Reality Technology To Help Treat Medical Anxiety In UK Autistic Community
Wednesday, 10 April 2024, 10:18 am | oVRcome
A New Zealand Virtual Reality (VR) provider is set to help autistic people in the UK who struggle with anxiety over hospital visits. Christchurch startup oVRcome has landed a major international contract with one of the largest National Health Service ... More >>
Zenno Astronautics And Faraday Factory Partner On High-temperature Superconducting Magnets To Electrify Space
Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 8:51 pm | Shine Group
Collaboration targets the world’s first bespoke superconducting magnetic systems for space More >>
Climate Commission Draft Advice On Emissions Budgets And Targets – Expert Reaction
Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 4:20 pm | Science Media Centre
The Climate Commission is now welcoming public feedback on its draft advice around New Zealand’s emissions budgets and targets. The draft advice reviews our 2050 net-zero carbon emissions target, as well as whether the 2050 target should also ... More >>
Biosecurity Awards: Work To Protect New Zealand’s Forests Recognised
Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 1:52 pm | Scion
Spanning four decades and featuring domestic and internationally significant work, Dr Brian Richardson’s career was acknowledged last night when Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard presented him with the Minister’s Biosecurity Award at the NZ Biosecurity ... More >>
Attack On Science Steps Up With Jobs Going At Callaghan Innovation
Monday, 8 April 2024, 10:16 pm | Public Service Association
The jobs of 30 scientists and engineers at Callaghan Innovation are the latest casualties of the Government’s drive to reduce its investment in research and development. More >>
Kiwi Startup KaiBot In Kainundrum Named As Finalist In The EdTech Awards 2024
Monday, 8 April 2024, 1:30 pm | Paul Blomfield
The EdTech Awards is a global competition established in 2010 to recognise, acknowledge, and celebrate the most exceptional innovators, leaders, and trendsetters in education technology. More >>
Star Gazers Take Flight: The Reopening Of The Stardome Observatory & Planetarium Zeiss Telescope
Monday, 8 April 2024, 1:08 pm | Elephant Publicity
Stardome Observatory & Planetarium is delighted to announce the long-awaited reopening of the EWB Zeiss Telescope to the public from April 12, 2024. More >>
Researchers Warn Of Ongoing Grass Fire Danger As Dry Conditions Persist
Monday, 8 April 2024, 11:30 am | Scion
With elevated fire danger levels predicted in certain regions until the end of April, researchers at Scion are calling for greater public awareness about the hazard posed by tinder dry grasses. The fire hazard posed by cured (dry brown) grass is quick ... More >>
A Call To Save Our Science (SOS) At Friday’s #SS4C
Saturday, 6 April 2024, 5:23 am | New Zealand Association of Scientists
“Many scientists will be marching in support of rangitahi and youth, yet also have a message. It’s an SOS - Save Our Science. Save the science facing cuts that is needed to address the climate change challenge.” More >>
Scientists Create 3D Map Of Universe
Friday, 5 April 2024, 9:15 am | University of Queensland
An international team of researchers has created the world's largest and most detailed 3D map of the universe – measuring the expansion of the cosmos over the past 11 billion years. More >>
New Zealand Flies To The Stratosphere With NASA
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 4:24 pm | Kea Aerospace
Founded in 2018, Kea Aerospace is partnering with NASA Research Centres to advance high-altitude airborne earth observation techniques. More >>
New Study Highlights Risks From Technology To Health And Wellbeing Of Schoolkids
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 4:18 pm | Auckland University of Technology
New Zealand students have high use of screens in class compared to global norms, with students in Aotearoa amongst the world’s highest users of digital devices in school. More >>
New Zealand Tech Helping To Protect Our Oceans Secures Investment
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 3:40 pm | Starboard Maritime Intelligence
The investment enables Starboard to strengthen its support for a growing number of analysts in the Pacific region. More >>
Unlocking Turmeric’s Potential: Aiding Post-Surgery Recovery
Wednesday, 3 April 2024, 5:54 pm | Golden Turmeric Limited
As awareness of turmeric’s benefits grows, more healthcare professionals are incorporating it into their post-operative protocols. Whether for humans or our beloved furry companions, turmeric offers a holistic approach to pain management that aligns with the principles ... More >>
New Zealand’s Natural Heritage Still Under Threat – Conference Marks Decade Of Research On Biodiversity And Biosecurity
Wednesday, 3 April 2024, 8:06 am | NZ Bioheritage National Science Challenge
Innovative ways to reverse the decline of New Zealand’s natural heritage are the focus of a two-day conference in Wellington this week 3-4 April at Te Papa. BioHeritage National Science Challenge’s ‘Crazy & Ambitious 4’ conference highlights ... More >>
Cartherics Enters Into Collaborative Research Agreement With TiCARos
Wednesday, 3 April 2024, 7:56 am | Cartherics
Melbourne, Australia, 2 April 2024 – Cartherics Pty Ltd (“Cartherics”), a biotechnology company developing immune cell therapies for the treatment of cancer, is pleased to announce that it has entered a collaborative research agreement with ... More >>
There Are No Bystanders When Evolution Is Demanding A Revolution In Consciousness
Friday, 29 March 2024, 5:47 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Given that nature unfolds in a dynamic & holistic order, & humans evolved along with all other creatures on earth, how & why did man become such a factor of fragmentation and disorder on this planet? More >>
NZDF Tests Space Hardware After Successful Satellite Launch
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 12:16 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has successfully launched an experimental satellite payload into orbit on a United States satellite, which will allow defence scientists to conduct space communications research. The “Korimako” payload was attached ... More >>
Advisory Groups Light On Detail And Heavy On Ideology
Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 3:49 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union says the government’s announcement today of two advisory groups to “explore issues facing the science sector” and “consider the effectiveness of the current university system” is light on details ... More >>
UNZ Welcomes Government’s Plans To Address University And Science System Challenges
Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 2:45 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Universities New Zealand – Te Pokāi Tara welcomes the Government’s announcement that two advisory groups will oversee an exploration of the challenges and opportunities facing both our universities and our science system. Professor Cheryl de la Rey, ... More >>
Wind And Rain More Likely Across North Island This Long Weekend
Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 2:33 pm | MetService
MetService is predicting the South Island to have sunnier weather across the long weekend compared to the North Island. However, they will not be immune to the cold temperatures which will be felt nationwide in the first half of Easter weekend. Leading ... More >>
More Than Half Of Highly Erodible Land Located In The North Island In 2022
Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 11:47 am | Statistics New Zealand
Sixty percent of Aotearoa New Zealand’s highly erodible land was in the North Island in 2022, according to data released by Stats NZ today. This is despite the North Island comprising only 43 percent of New Zealand's total land area. “New ... More >>
New Zealand Plant-based Packing Technology To Be Sold Globally
Tuesday, 26 March 2024, 12:31 pm | Plant and Food Research
A new company has been established to market a sustainable plant-based alternative to polystyrene, developed through a government-funded Crown Research Institute collaboration. The new company, ZealaFoam Holdings Limited, will focus on commercial opportunities ... More >>
Researchers Reveal New Method For Calculating Mechanical Pro
Monday, 25 March 2024, 11:34 pm | Skoltech
A research team from Skoltech introduced a new method which takes advantage of machine learning for studying the properties of polycrystals, composites, and multiphase systems. More >>
Researchers Reveal New Method For Calculating Mechanical Properties Of Solids Using Machine Learning
Monday, 25 March 2024, 11:16 pm | Skoltech
A research team from Skoltech introduced a new method which takes advantage of machine learning for studying the properties of polycrystals, composites, and multiphase systems. More >>
Unsettled Weather In The Run-up To Easter
Monday, 25 March 2024, 2:32 pm | MetService
MetService is forecasting a series of fronts which will make their way over the country this week, bringing strong northwesterly winds and periods of rain, particularly for the South Island. On Thursday, a cold southwesterly flow takes over, and while ... More >>
Sparks Set To Fly In Regional Robot Rumble!
Monday, 25 March 2024, 12:22 pm | Techweek
This year, Techweek24 brings cutting-edge competition to Blenheim! Marlborough Youth Trust, with support from Innovate Marlborough, Marlborough Chamber of Commerce, and Whiringa Ltd, is hosting Igniting Innovation: Corporate Combat. This thrilling event ... More >>
Snowline Survey Reveals Continued Shrinkage Of NZ Glaciers
Monday, 25 March 2024, 11:13 am | NIWA
New Zealand’s glaciers appear "smashed and shattered" due to enduring ice loss, says NIWA. Since the 1970s, NIWA has been flying over Aotearoa New Zealand’s mountain ranges to conduct their end of summer snowline survey, observing the state ... More >>
ClimSystems’ Review Highlights Readiness To Assist Reporting Entities With Mandatory Climate-related Disclosures
Monday, 25 March 2024, 10:35 am | ClimSystems
ClimSystems meets or exceeds the quality standards required to support Climate Reporting Entities (CREs) in complying with the new laws on climate-related disclosures (CRD) in New Zealand. The company, operating in New Zealand for over twenty years, implemented ... More >>
Orcas Are Very Smart, But They Don’t Construct Separate Selves
Monday, 25 March 2024, 9:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Orcas, projectively called Killer Whales, are the top predators of the sea. Different “cultures” of orcas use different strategies to hunt everything from manta rays to Great White sharks. There is no recorded instance of orcas killing a human in ... More >>
General Assembly Adopts Landmark Resolution On Artificial Intelligence
Saturday, 23 March 2024, 9:09 am | UN News
It represents the first time the Assembly has adopted a resolution on regulating the emerging field. More >>
Kiwi Research Soars To International Space Station
Friday, 22 March 2024, 1:24 pm | New Zealand Government
New Zealand has notched up a first with the launch of University of Canterbury research to the International Space Station, Science, Innovation and Technology and Space Minister Judith Collins says. More >>
Tao Climate Propels Sustainable Aviation: Airline CO2 Emissions Transformed Into Sustainable Housing
Thursday, 21 March 2024, 6:24 am | Tao Climate
Unique Model Uses Hemp to Remove CO2 from the Air, Hempcrete to Sequester the Carbon in Sustainable Housing Dublin, Ireland - March 20, 2024 – In a groundbreaking endeavour poised to redefine the relationship between aviation emissions and sustainable living, ... More >>
Study Into New Zealand-first For End-of-life Plastic Recycling
Wednesday, 20 March 2024, 9:41 am | Joint Press Release
A new collaboration between industry and Government marks the first step towards a circular economy for soft plastic packaging in New Zealand. Technology developer Licella, cardboard packaging and paper recycler Oji Fibre Solutions, on-farm plastic ... More >>
Innovative New Model To Safeguard Urban Planning From Natural Hazards
Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 12:14 pm | Earthquake Commission
Urban planning experts at the University of Waikato are developing a new model to support the translation of natural hazard science and planning of future cities. “New Zealand has all this amazing knowledge about our natural hazards, but we need ... More >>
Alcohol Consumption Tracked Via Wastewater In First Big NZ Trial
Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 9:59 am | University of Auckland
Scientists at the University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau have carried out the country’s first large scale trial of using wastewater to monitor alcohol consumption. The trial was successful and the technique of testing wastewater, already used for ... More >>
Auckland Geeks Lead The Charge In Saving Your Wallet And The Planet
Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 9:55 am | Fabric Digital
Today, the lifespan of computers, both desktops and laptops, is getting shorter due to rapid technological advancements. This trend is tough on our wallets and has a negative impact on the environment through the increase of electronic waste (e-waste). ... More >>
A Meditation On Collective Consciousness
Monday, 18 March 2024, 12:08 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In a wide-ranging conversation about consciousness yesterday, my friend made a provocative comment that raises a compelling question. He said, “Consciousness is an inter-subjective field,” adding, “consciousness is not individual.” If consciousness is not ... More >>
University of Otago and Methane Mavericks Win Grand Prizes at Space for Planet Earth Challenge
Saturday, 16 March 2024, 12:22 pm | SpaceBase
The team “Methane Mavericks” from Newham, Australia, and the University of Otago team from Dunedin, New Zealand, have been awarded the Grand Prizes in the Space for Planet Earth Challenge, an innovative competition focused on leveraging space technologies ... More >>
When Thought Falls Silent There Is Harmony
Friday, 15 March 2024, 11:57 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The afternoon was gray and chilly, with only the saddle-shaped opening to the canyon visible in the hills beyond town. Suddenly the sun broke through near the horizon in the western sky. For some timeless minutes, sunlight flooded the land and illuminated ... More >>
Govt Signals Pause On Significant Natural Areas – Expert Reaction
Friday, 15 March 2024, 10:56 am | Science Media Centre
The government is signalling councils don't need to comply with their legal obligations around Significant Natural Areas, i.e., mapping out areas with threatened native plants or wildlife for protection. While SNAs were first introduced in 1991, last ... More >>
Blue Cod - The Kittens Of The Sea?
Friday, 15 March 2024, 10:38 am | NIWA
Strange fish behaviour has been captured by NIWA scientists working in New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds. They were looking at the abundance and anatomy of blue cod ( Parapercis colias), research that involved using lasers attached to underwater cameras ... More >>
Layer Up For The Weekend
Thursday, 14 March 2024, 2:25 pm | MetService
With a forecast of rain, southerly winds, and snow for this weekend, the advice from MetService is to layer up, especially if you are spending time outdoors. The blast of cold air reaches the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand Thursday afternoon, ... More >>
Rare Smeagol Sea Slug Population Discovered South Of Dunedin
Thursday, 14 March 2024, 9:14 am | Otago Regional Council
Otago can now lay claim to its own population of the rare and nationally threatened Smeagol sea slug following an ORC discovery in January in the Akatore Creek estuary - 50 kilometres south of Dunedin. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2403/8552210ca1beaaed706d.jpeg" ... More >>
VAST Data And Supermicro Partner To Simplify And Accelerate AI Pipelines
Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 6:08 pm | VAST Data
New collaboration combines VAST Data software, Supermicro hardware and NVIDIA technologies to simplify deployment of hyperscale AI infrastructure AUCKLAND – March 13, 2024 – VAST Data , the AI data platform company, and Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total ... More >>
VAST Data Unveils New Data Centre Architecture For The AI Factory
Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 5:52 pm | VAST Data
Designed in collaboration with NVIDIA and being deployed at CoreWeave, the new infrastructure unleashes VAST’s parallel data services architecture on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs to simplify and scale AI AUCKLAND – March 13, 2024 – VAST Data , the AI data platform ... More >>
Black Box To Be Inspected After LATAM Flight Incident – Expert Reaction
Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 2:57 pm | Science Media Centre
Authorities are investigating the black box of a plane that plummeted from the skies before landing in Auckland on Monday. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a LATAM flight starting from Sydney, suddenly lost altitude over the Tasman Sea, injuring 50 passengers as ... More >>
