A new report highlights the worrying trends confronting security professionals – from more sophisticated hacking methods to hack-for-hire products and targeted attacks on tourism websites.
Scientists are using environmental DNA to compile a census of life in Loch Ness and to establish if there is any scientific basis for the centuries-old monster legend.
Eva Nisa, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Faried F. Saenong, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Indonesia has worked hard to block homegrown terrorist cells, but the involvement of children as suicide bombers in recent attacks has raised concerns that de-radicalisation programmes aren’t working.
A new study shows that workers exposed to solvents in the vehicle collision repair industry are at greater risk of adverse health effects than other blue-collar workers.
Dave Frame, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Adrian Henry Macey, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, and Myles Allen, University of Oxford
New research has suggested a fresh way to account for greenhouse gases with different lifetimes in the atmosphere.
Andrew Lorrey, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research; Andrew Mackintosh, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, and Brian Anderson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Forty years of continuous end-of-summer snowline monitoring of New Zealand’s glaciers brings the issue of human-induced climate change into tight focus.
Cyber deterrence is based on outdated ideas developed during the Cold War, but with cyber crime projected to hit US$6 trillion by 2021, cyber security requires new approaches.
New Zealand has set itself a goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050, and a recent report by the Productivity Commission lays out how it could hit that target.
New Zealand’s foreign minister announced a NZ$714 million increase in aid for Pacific nations in a soft-power response to China’s growing influence in the Asia-Pacific region.
Isabelle Sin, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Gail Pacheco, Auckland University of Technology
New research shows that parenthood contributes to the gender pay gap and penalises all women, particularly those who were on high incomes before having children.
Leaked reports reveal that some of New Zealand’s largest fishing companies have been under-reporting their catch of the commercially valuable hoki by hundreds of tonnes.
Examples from Ireland and New Zealand show that, unless determined measures are taken, masculine political cultures will ensure the gender imbalance remains.
New Zealand’s coalition government in its first budget has treated public policies as investments, with the goal of improving social and environmental outcomes.
Hanlie Booysen, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
To understand how Syria has become the theatre for proxy wars between international forces, one has to return to the Arab uprisings and Syria’s role as an outlier.
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University