Science comes to the rescue to help identify apple tree varieties in an Otago heritage orchard.

Seasonal influenza virus circulation was eliminated in Aotearoa (New Zealand) from 2020 to 2022, following the nation's stringent public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we generate nea...

We're looking for three postdoctoral fellows to join our newly created Modelling for Impact Hub.

We're looking for three postdoctoral fellows to join our newly created Modelling for Impact Hub.

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Lost in Translation 10 - The Herald Bunbury Sheet (episode 10) - In the final instalment of this series about the Treaty of Waitangi, Mike King follows the Herald Bunbury treaty sheet. It was the only...

Recipient of huge grant to be assessed on how it is tracking against its intended outcomes.

‍"There's a deep concern that that funding runs out in December next year; it would be effectively a drop on funding for the sector of about 8 percent at that stage and that would be catastrophic," Wh...

Students in a new postgraduate qualification teaching about "farm-to-fork and beyond" are hungry to learn, a Dunedin professor says. University of...

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Gender discrimination is well documented with AI and LLM's. This article looks at the gender bias with Māori language translations.

Opinion from Otago University: Free markets do not respond well to things that are slow to change – we need to set deep and long-lived national research, science, and technology goals

New Save Science Coalition aims to head off future spending cuts

BRIEFINGS A series of briefings unpacking the latest science on livestock methane solutions.

President Joe Biden's administration is offering farmers money for adopting practices that store carbon in the soil to fight climate change, but Reuters interviews with soil science experts and a review of U.S. Department of Agriculture research indicate doubt that the approach will be effective.

The methane review lays the groundwork for watering down climate targets while using science as cover for what is ultimately a political decision.

This Friday, in locations all around Aotearoa, students will be striking for the climate. If you can join in one of the strikes, please do. The more people turning out the bigger the splash and media ...

Abstract. Randomised control trials (RCTs) and field studies are two empirical approaches. We conducted a field study analysing the adoption of Bt eggplant