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Medsafe has expanded access to the psychedelic drug psilocybin, and the sleep hormone melatonin. The change means melatonin ...

The winners of this year's Science Journalism Awards cover the dark side of solar storms and explore the long-term impacts of human changes to a Hawke's Bay river. Kate Newton of RNZ won this year's ...

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New Zealand will replace its traditional nationwide census with a new data collection approach from 2030. Statistics Minister ...

The Environmental Protection Authority is being taken to court over its decision not to re-assess the pesticide. The ...

A five-year plan aiming to tackle New Zealand's "stubbornly high suicide rates" has been released today. The plan includes ...

A 787 Dreamliner aircraft carrying 242 people crashed last night (NZ time) shortly after taking off in the city of Ahmedabad ...

New overseas research has found that gender disparities in maths performance in favour of boys show up as early as after four ...

A Cambridge University report highlights all the ways menstrual tracking data can be misused.  The report warns of numerous ...

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