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Low battery, high consequences
Source: New Zealand Police Powered by poor decision making, a man will face court today after he allegedly burgled a petrol station and stole a phone charger overnight. At around...
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Planes, trains and pandemics: Lessons from COVID-19 about travel risks posed by hantavirus and Ebola
Recent outbreaks of Hantavirus and Ebolavirus raise concerns about risks linked to travel, with responses varying between countries. COVID-19 offers lessons for effective approaches to public health.
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Deep-sea sponges survive in complete darkness in ways we didn’t know before
Beyond the sunlit ocean lies a vast abyss where organisms have to recycle every scrap available.
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The Backrooms: how a teenager’s creepy YouTube series became the year’s most anticipated horror
The Backrooms horror legend began as an anonymous 4chan post in 2019. Now it’s an A24 film by director Kane Parsons – just 20 years old.
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What is trauma? The more we talk about it, the more it means
Trauma is everywhere in mainstream vocabulary and online, but its meaning has never been hazier. Has the concept been de-stigmatised or diluted? And does it matter?
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Preventable death triggers call for action on industrial machine safety
Source: Worksafe New Zealand 27 May 2026 WorkSafe New Zealand is renewing its call for businesses to act on machine safety, as a court case concludes over the preventable death...
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Could aliens ever visit Earth? An aerospace scientist unpacks the challenges of interstellar spaceflight
To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.
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Authors versus AI and the risks to government public sector push
Experts foresee a threat to the government's plans to push for much more AI in the public service, at a "pivotal" time for scores of lawsuits globally.
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Rising geoplitical tensions show why Canada’s agri-food trade strategy needs to change
Canada’s agricultural exporters face growing pressure from trade disputes that expose the risks of concentrating exports in too few markets.
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Privacy Commissioner finds Manage My Health and Health New Zealand breached Privacy Act – 91 percent of affected patients based in Northland
Source: Privacy Commissioner 27 May 2026, 05:01 The Privacy Commissioner has today released the findings of Phase 1 of his Inquiry into the December 2025 Manage My Health cyber incident...