You may have noticed New Zealand was significantly quieter during the COVID-19 lockdown. The noise from cars, emergency sirens, and children playing in the school yard faded away, leaving urban areas in particular much less noisy during March and April 2020.
In today’s urbanised world, steel is a ubiquitous material, used in everything from infrastructure like roads and railways, through to buildings, wind turbines and electric vehicles. But making that steel comes with a significant environmental cost.
Learning something new and joining a sport or social club are among the things linked to a longer lifespan, write Professor Paul Jose, Dr Ziggi Ivan Santini and Dr Vibeke Jenny Koushede.
A Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington scientist will become the first New Zealand researcher to join MOSAiC, the world’s largest international polar research expedition.
Understanding how earthquakes affect the ground they travel through could be the key to understanding how buildings and structures aboveground will be impacted by a given earthquake, says Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Professor of Geophysics Martha Savage.
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington student Emily Chase spent her summer traipsing across the city, surveying 240 sites to figure out how effective predator management strategies have been in Wellington.
According to the oral histories of iwi in the area, D’Urville’s Island’s Lake Moawhitu and Hawke’s Bay’s Lake Whakaki may archive evidence of devastating tsunamis in the past.
Hannah Creary says her Summer Research Scholarship involved “ten amazing weeks working in one of New Zealand’s coolest museums with centuries old herbarium specimens and some pretty neat people”.
A group of New Zealand experts is coming together to ensure New Zealand has access to COVID-19 anti-virals.
The world will be better prepared for the worst effects of climate change due to Antarctic ice-sheet discoveries by the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington-based winners of the 2019 Prime Minister’s Science Prize.
