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There’s still no sign a new mutant coronavirus subvariant is making a splash in NZ.
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NZ should treat other serious respiratory infections like Covid-19, leading experts say.
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What comes after the Big One? Study into central NZ's major earthquake risk
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Sleep scientist explores the brain’s unconscious storytelling
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Scientists dismayed to find microplastics building up deep in pristine NZ marine reserve.
140,000 landslides: What scientists are learning from Gabrielle’s record damage
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Mutant Covid subvariant ‘Pirola’ lands in NZ
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Nasa spacecraft delivering biggest sample yet from an asteroid
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Nasa has a UFO research director, but he remains unidentified
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Southern Ocean’s shrunken sea ice has entered ‘new state’ after freakish season
Warming water has pushed Southern Ocean sea ice into a new diminished state, study finds.
Super-spreading scourge to be sucked from seabed in new trial
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Here come the windy westerlies: How El Niño is adding to spring’s bluster
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Sharks on a golf course made a water hazard like no other
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The Dunedin scientist solving a global climate change puzzle
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Entrepreneurs giving back to next generation with US internships
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Uncertainty looms over the largest shake-up of our science system in three decades.
El Niño incoming: NZ’s climate to take ‘rapid turn’ within weeks
We're about to get a taste of the drier summer much of NZ will experience under El Niño.
Only just caught the flu this season? This might explain why
NZ's slow-burning season has dragged on longer and stronger than 2022, a virologist says.
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Last year’s gargantuan Tonga eruption created the fastest underwater flows ever recorded.
