Tens of thousands of rural New Zealanders could be drinking water with harmful nitrate levels, researchers say. The first-ever national […] The post High nitrate levels found in rural NZ drinking water – Expert Reaction appeared first on Science Media Centre.| Science Media Centre
Government changes to the earthquake-prone building system will remove nearly 3000 buildings from the classification. Following the Seismic Risk Management […] The post Quake-prone buildings redefined – Expert Reaction appeared first on Science Media Centre.| Science Media Centre
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 Austria will discuss how we might recover our climate targets through mitigation or carbon removal| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
US doctors will soon be advised not to prescribe the pain reliever paracetamol to pregnant women, US President Donald Trump said […] The post Trump’s autism and paracetamol comments disputed – Expert Reaction appeared first on Science Media Centre.| Science Media Centre
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, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) vaccines for children under 4. Votes on Hepatitis B immun| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
Young contact sports players' brains can show signs of damage years before symptoms of long-term brain disease appear, a small US study finds. Researchers found that brain tissues from under-51-year-old sports players had more inflammation, loss of nerve cells, and damage to blood vessels, than t| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
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 Roy Kerr's 1963 research elegantly explained what space and time look like near a spinning black h| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
An emergency set net fishing ban to protect yellow-eyed penguins around the Otago Peninsula begins at 5 pm today. The three-month ban follows a voluntary closure by set-net fishers last week and earlier calls for a ban during the breeding season of hoiho – the 2024 Bird of the Year. The SMC as| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
Five well-publicised geoengineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change in the polar regions are "extremely unlikely" to work, and are a risk to the environment, say NZ and international experts in a new paper. The researchers looked at ideas like injecting aerosol clouds into the atmo| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
The Government will be changing aspects to New Zealand's higher education system, informed by a recently released report by the University Advisory Group. Changes include a new strategy for all of New Zealand's tertiary education sector; a strategy group to help improve collaboration between univer| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
