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If asteroid hit Earth elsewhere, 'dinosaurs would have survived'
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Anti-intellectualism threatens civilisation: Prof Brian Cox
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Focus: Fighting anti-intellectualism
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Focus: Are we ready to start mining the solar system?
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Could 'bio-banking' halt NZ's species loss?
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Drones to scan strait in 'Project Cookie Monster'
Ocean drones will probe the wild Cook Strait in new study dubbed "Project Cookie Monster".
Climate report bodes badly for Paris goals
Grim new figures show Paris climate goals will be hard to meet fast, NZ scientists say.
NZ study: could humans regenerate tissue?
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