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Building Better Homes and Cities Reveals Research Focus
Monday, 20 August 2018, 3:42 pm | National Science Challenges
Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities Reveals Research Focus For The Year Ahead Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities (BBHTC) - Ko ngā wā kāinga hei whakamāhorahora - has announced the key themes of their research in the year ahead. Continuing to ... More >>
Conserving seeds to fight plant extinction
Monday, 30 July 2018, 5:01 pm | National Science Challenges
Collecting and storing seeds is a way of potentially saving native trees from extinction, and Whanganui iwi are now joining the charge. More >>
Could Higher Density Developments Help Auckland
Wednesday, 2 May 2018, 2:58 pm | National Science Challenges
The largest single housing development in New Zealand - Hobsonville Point - is emerging as a positive example of how living at density can enhance liveability. More >>
How We Can Build The Kind Of Housing We Want And Need
Tuesday, 20 March 2018, 12:12 pm | National Science Challenges
If New Zealand is ever to produce enough affordable housing to meet the needs of low and middle income earners, such as service workers, teachers and nurses, it must take action using positive planning and investment. More >>
Mātauranga Māori Provides Pathway To Future-Proof Housing
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 12:13 pm | National Science Challenges
New research conducted by Ko ngā wā kāinga hei whakamāhorahora - Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities (BBHTC) National Science Challenge - has uncovered traditional approaches to housing that stand up to climate change and strengthen communities. More >>
Impacts of stormwater, wastewater and climate change
Thursday, 25 January 2018, 12:12 pm | National Science Challenges
Stormwater, wastewater and climate change: Impacts on our economy, environment, culture and society In October 2017, the Deep South Challenge released a report into the state of the nation’s storm and waste water infrastructure, in the face of ... More >>
Researchers find decline in obesity in NZ 4-year-olds
Thursday, 4 January 2018, 11:08 am | National Science Challenges
New Zealand’s four-year-olds are resisting the tide towards rising obesity, according to research funded by A Better Start, one of the country’s national science challenges. More >>
SfTI Challenge Researcher Numbers Near 200
Monday, 18 December 2017, 10:11 am | National Science Challenges
Nearly 200 Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI) National Science Challenge researchers now work on 35 projects at 25 local, and four international, organisations. More >>
NZ Water Systems Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Change
Friday, 27 October 2017, 11:43 am | National Science Challenges
The recent Edgecumbe floods saw raw sewage floating through the streets, making the clean-up extremely challenging. Six months later, 500 houses are still unliveable and flood-proofing the town remains a distant goal. More >>
Canterbury quake damage increased risk of disease
Friday, 8 September 2017, 1:50 pm | National Science Challenges
A Healthier Lives National Science Challenge study using New Zealand linked datasets reveals the impact of residential housing damage from the 2010/11 Canterbury earthquakes on hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease. More >>
Crazy & Ambitious Conference 2017
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 4:55 pm | National Science Challenges
The New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge kicks off its inaugural conference at Te Papa, Wellington next week. More >>
Event presents latest research on our "Diabesity" epidemic
Friday, 17 March 2017, 10:08 am | National Science Challenges
Getting teenagers more active and how our gut hormones impact on obesity are just two of a wide range of topics being discussed at a major gathering of top national and international researchers at Auckland City Hospital today. (Friday, 17 March). More >>
ICT Hui brings Māori, local and global ICT talent together
Monday, 20 February 2017, 9:58 am | National Science Challenges
Some of Aotearoa’s leading Information and Communications Technology experts are being joined by expat Kiwi and top Google executive Craig Neville-Manning in Auckland today at a one day Hui. More >>
Potential of gene-editing for conserving biological heritage
Friday, 18 November 2016, 9:16 am | National Science Challenges
The Royal Society of NZ has issued an information paper ( www.royalsociety.org.nz/gene-editing ) on gene-editing techniques. The New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, representing all 8 Universities and 7 Crown Research Institutes, welcomes ... More >>
New Money a Game-Changer for New Zealand’s Biodiversity
Tuesday, 26 July 2016, 2:13 pm | National Science Challenges
“The significant new investment in pest eradication, announced at Zealandia in Wellington today by Prime Minister John Key, could be a game-changer. And a game-changer is just what our biodiversity desperately needs,” says Dr Andrea Byrom, Director ... More >>
A Silicon Valley of foods for health
Wednesday, 13 April 2016, 12:35 pm | National Science Challenges
World experts in food-for-health are coming together in Auckland next week for the High-Value Nutrition symposium as part of an initiative to try and boost New Zealand’s economy, by transforming our country into a “Silicon Valley of Foods for Health”. More >>
Our Land and Water National Science Challenge launched
Wednesday, 27 January 2016, 9:29 am | National Science Challenges
Our Land and Water National Science Challenge launched Enhancing New Zealand’s primary sector economic contributions while improving our environment is the aim of the newest National Science Challenge, Our Land and Water – Toitū te Whenua, ... More >>
