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Alert newsletter reaches milestone of 1,000th issue

Alert, the Society's weekly newsletter to shar...

Celebrating Alert's 1,000th issue with he kāhui whetū | shining stars

Today the 1,000th issue of...

New television series on artefacts and taonga of Aotearoa

Dame Anne Salmond FRSNZ is presenting a ...

Next President of Society to receive prestigious research medal

Professor Wendy Larner FRSNZ FAcSS...

Māori scholarship awarded to Ōtaki College student

Iritana Bennett Fakahau learnt today that she...

Scholar, dreamer, rebel-rouser – now Emeritus Professor

2017 Pou Aronui Award winner Professor N...

Leading scientific journal formalises ethics standards for human-embryo and stem cell papers

Fellow David Penny named foreign associate of US National Academy of Sciences

Fellow Professor Eme...

Whizz Bang Science! Dr Graham returns for July school holidays

Dr Graham is in New Zealand for som...

Bee happy: EU bans neonicotinoid pesticide use

The EU has announced a near-total ban on three inse...

Attenborough endorses 10-year plan to describe Australasian biodiversity

Today New Zealand and Aus...

‘My daughter is a drug addict’: grandparents caring for the children of addicted parents

Lest we forget, Kia maumahara tātou i a rātou

This ANZAC day Royal Society Te Apārangi commemor...

MBIE now accepting ORCID iDs for funding applications

The Ministry for Business, Innovation and Em...

Video: How to talk, teach and write about climate change

This discussion looks at fresh approaches...

On science and stamp collecting

Physicist Professor Richard Blaikie shares his perspectives on wha...

Video: What's really inside your medicine cabinet with Dame Carol Robinson

'What's really inside y...

Unusual fungi reported in New Zealand Journal of Botany

First record of the fungus Battarrea phall...

CREST supports Tahi Rua Toru Tech

An exciting new digital technologies championship open to all Ne...

Science of nature without culture

Bob Brockie’s opinion piece "The Treaty has no place in scient...

Plant invaders - seeds of despair?

Leonard Cockayne Lecturer for 2018, Professor Philip Hulme on t...

Seeking Associate Editors for the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

New Zealand Journa...

New issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology now available online

Volume 45, Issue 2 of the New...

Bioengineering - a boon for New Zealand?

2016 MacDiarmid Medal winner Professor Merryn Tawhai disc...

Committed to an inclusive view of knowledge

Our President responds to a recent column in the media...

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research Special Issue

The latest special issue of the New Zea...

NIWA launches new competition to tackle marine pests

Biosecurity scientists are seeking 'out of th...

Video: Mitigating climate change with Professor Jim Skea

'Climate change: stormy weather ahead', a...

Not Just a Tasty Toheroa | A review of the biology, ecology and history of the endemic surf clam

James Cook Research Fellowships | 2018 round is now open

The James Cook Research Fellowships, admi...

Inaugural Animal Welfare Fellowship awarded to Massey Researcher

The inaugural Bob Kerridge Animal...

Talk on the Hubble to launch international science communication conference

For the first time the...

Society supports joint statement on climate change by Commonwealth academies of science

Royal Soci...

Video: Fuels to Food from Sunlight, Air, and Water

'Energy: what's possible, what's not' with Prof...

2018 New Zealand Community of the Year finalist | Pillars

Congratulations to Dr Liz Gordon, Presid...