Tens of thousands of rural New Zealanders could be drinking water with harmful nitrate levels, researchers say. The ...

Government changes to the earthquake-prone building system will remove nearly 3000 buildings from the classification.

US doctors will soon be advised not to prescribe the pain reliever paracetamol to pregnant women, US President Donald Trump ...

We're edging closer to exceeding 1.5°C of warming globally, and scientists will soon gather to understand the implications of ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting to review childhood vaccine recommendations in the US. The ...

Young contact sports players' brains can show signs of damage years before symptoms of long-term brain disease appear, a ...

Professor Brett Gartrell, Professor in Wildlife Health and Director of the Wildbase Research Centre at Massey University, comments: “It is excellent news to see the government responding to the threat ...

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International researchers who studied the merging of two black holes say their new observations match theories developed by Stephen Hawking and […] ...