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  • 'Psychedelic renaissance' hits New Zealand

    News
    New Zealand science
    17 Dec 2024
    Psilocybin mushrooms, known as magic mushrooms

    From the results, it looks like New Zealand may be part of a global trend that has been dubbed the 'psychedelic renaissance'. Audio

    'Psychedelic renaissance' hits New Zealand
  • What's behind all the seabirds washing up dead?

    News
    New Zealand environment
    17 Dec 2024
    Sooty shearwaters travel huge distances across the Pacific.

    Unusually high numbers of dead seabirds have been reported on the North Island's west coast beaches.

    Massive number of dead seabirds due to ocean warming - DOC
  • After months spinning in a vortex, world's biggest iceberg is on the move

    News
    World science
    17 Dec 2024
    This handout image released by EYOS Expeditions on 19January 19, 2024, shows an aerial view of the A23a iceberg in the waters of The Southern Ocean off Antarctica on January 14.

    The world's largest iceberg is again drifting through the Southern Ocean after months stuck spinning on the same spot.

    World's biggest iceberg, A23a, is on the move again
  • New Zealand and the 'psychedelic renaissance'

    Audio
    science culture
    17 Dec 2024
    No caption

    The latest set of results from the 2024 New Zealand Drugs Trends Survey has shed light on the non-medical use of pharmaceuticals in New Zealand.  Audio

  • Physicist on how Santa delivers gifts

    Audio
    science life and society
    17 Dec 2024

    A scientist says Santa Claus may use tricks of quantum physics to help him deliver gifts around the world on Christmas Eve. University of Auckland head of the department of physics Professor Jan… Audio

  • Why China's Xi is turning against his own loyalists

    News
    World Comment & Analysis
    17 Dec 2024
    Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on 12 December, 2024.

    Analysis - China's leader purged one of his closest proteges in the military last month. Experts say it raises questions over his ability to end systematic corruption.

    Xi brought down powerful rivals in the military. Now he's going after his own men
  • Will 2025 be the year of the cancer vaccine?

    Audio
    science health
    16 Dec 2024
    Syringe in phial, illustration. (Photo by SERGII IAREMENKO/SCIENCE PHOTO L / SIA / Science Photo Library via AFP)

    The Economist's health editor Natasha Loder wrote that advances in mRNA technology have spawned groundbreaking new cancer vaccine trials around the world, from melanoma to colorectal cancers. Audio

  • AI influencing Christmas gift buying

    News
    Business technology
    16 Dec 2024
    France, 2024-05-07. Illustration, ChatGPT, for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a prototype chatbot using artificial intelligence, developed by OpenAI and specialising in the dialogue. Photograph by Jean-Marc Barrere / Hans Lucas.
France, 2024-05-07. Illustration, ChatGPT, pour Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, est un prototype d agent conversationnel, chatbot, utilisant l intelligence artificielle, developpe par OpenAI et specialise dans le dialogue. Photographie par Jean-Marc Barrere / Hans Lucas. (Photo by Jean-Marc Barrere / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP)

    That is not to say Santa is replacing his elves with robots, but it certainly is changing some people's holiday habits. Audio

    AI influencing Christmas gift buying
  • Five expert techniques to find lost things

    News
    New Zealand
    15 Dec 2024
    car keys

    US Journalist Malaka Gharib has gathered some evidence-based techniques on how best to search for missing items. Audio

    Have you lost it? Here's how to find it again
  • From Vogue magazine to exile - What's next for Bashar al-Assad's wife?

    News
    World conflict
    15 Dec 2024
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaking next to his wife Asma as they receive members of the army and their mother's to celebrate Mother's Day.

    Asma al-Assad was once seen as Syria's Princess Diana. Now, she will likely live out her days exiled in Russia. Audio

    From Vogue magazine to exile - What's next for Bashar al-Assad's wife?
  • There is a right way to pack your chilly bin

    News
    New Zealand food
    15 Dec 2024
    Food and ice packed in chilly bins

    Don't want to squash the cheese? Seen snags swim in a puddle of water at the bottom? Here's how to get it right.

    What's the right way to pack your chilly bin?
  • Fast Favourites: Social entrepreneur Izzy Fenwick

    Audio 15 Dec 2024
    Environmentalist and social entrepreneur Izzy Fenwick

    Izzy joins Culture 101 to share her Fast Favourite choices, and why she is passionate about continuing the legacy of her father.

      Audio

  • Why AI's next big evolution may be its least predictable yet

    News
    World technology
    14 Dec 2024
    Ilya Sutskever, Russian Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

    Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, one of the biggest names in artificial intelligence, said a major change was on AI's horizon.

    AI with reasoning power will be less predictable, Ilya Sutskever says
  • Plate tectonics: Graham Leonard

    Audio
    science environment
    14 Dec 2024
    The Moon and Earth today both give us clues to the origin of plate tectonics, continents and why Aotearoa exists above the ocean at all. The Moon in front of Earth captured by NASA’s EPIC camera aboard the DSCOVR satellite.

    This week GNS released a high resolution update to the national Active Faults Database, detailing where the active faults are across the motu.  Audio

  • The toxic chemicals from tyres

    Audio
    science environment
    14 Dec 2024
    no caption

    Every year, billions of vehicles shed an estimated six million tonnes of tyre particles, polluting our soils, rivers and lakes. Audio

  • Fury over Marsden Fund cut

    Audio
    politics te ao Māori
    14 Dec 2024

    The axing of humanities and social sciences from the government's Marsden Fund, has continued to draw a furious response from many researchers with 80 scientists this week signing an open letter in… Audio

  • 'I was just screaming': Stingray pierces fisher's boot with venomous barb

    News
    New Zealand Taranaki
    13 Dec 2024
    Faisal Syafii from New Plymouth

    It was an eight or nine on the pain scale, a man says after being stung through his workboot.

    Stingray pierces fisher's boot with venomous barb
  • Mum reported Luigi Mangione missing weeks before shooting

    News 13 Dec 2024
    Luigi Mangione is escorted from the Blair County Court House in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, after an extradition hearing on Tuesday.

    He cut off some loved ones for months. Now, evidence is mounting against the Ivy League graduate accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in broad daylight.

    He cut off some loved ones for months. Now, suspect Luigi Mangione faces mounting evidence in health care CEO’s killing
  • Warnings as start-up tries to refreeze the Arctic

    News
    World science
    13 Dec 2024
    A member of the Real Ice team takes measurements on the sea ice in Cambridge Bay in January 2024.

    A group added 50cm of fresh ice to part of the Arctic. Critics say it's a huge risk.

    A controversial plan to refreeze the Arctic is seeing promising results. But scientists warn of big risks
  • What a dissection of 'rarest whale in the world' revealed

    News
    New Zealand science
    13 Dec 2024
    Scientists are starting the examination in Mosgiel, which is expected to take several days.

    This was the first time a rare spade-toothed whale was dissected.

    Dissection of 'rarest whale in the world' leads to new discoveries about the species
  • What to do if your child won't do a sleepover

    News
    New Zealand children
    13 Dec 2024
    Awake child at a sleepover

    Sleepovers might seem like a rite of passage. That doesn't always have to be the case.

    What should you do if your child doesn't want to do a sleepover?
  • Teachers fear curriculum rewrites will erupt into fierce debates

    News
    New Zealand education
    13 Dec 2024

    Politicians' involvement could lead to curriculums becoming about culture war issues, rather than what's best to teach, PPTA president says.

    Teachers fear curriculum rewrites will erupt into debates over trans identity, traditional Māori knowledge
  • Largest ever gathering of mathematicians in New Zealand held this week

    Audio
    science national
    12 Dec 2024
    Maths book open with math problems written down

    If you were in Auckland this week the probability of running into a mathematician was higher than the mean. Audio

  • How to watch this year's last 'significant' meteor shower

    News
    New Zealand science
    12 Dec 2024
    A meteor burns up in the sky over al-Abrak desert north of Kuwait City during the annual Geminid meteor shower early on 15 December, 2023.

    A meteor shower considered to be one of the best will peak this weekend, but a full Moon may impact how much of it we see.

    How to see the Geminids meteor shower from New Zealand
  • 'Concerning' jump in cocaine, meth use

    News
    New Zealand health
    12 Dec 2024
    no caption

    Testing shows a more than 100 percent increase in meth use and 86 percent increase for cocaine.

    Police work to understand 'concerning' jump in cocaine, methamphetamine use
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