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Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are ‘resurrecting’ their genomes to understand how and why
For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve…
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In World War II’s dog-eat-dog struggle for resources, a Greenland mine launched a new world order
On April 9, 1940, Nazi tanks stormed into Denmark. A month later, they blitzed into Belgium, Holland and France. As…
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Today’s School Assembly News Headlines (17 February)
Good morning! Here are today’s most important news headlines for your school assembly on 17 February 2025. We’ve compiled the…
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How Option Chain Signals Help Predict Sensex Turns
Traders hustle to predict the tops and bottoms of the Sensex. As the Sensex depends on a huge number of…
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Today’s School Assembly News Headlines (16 February)
Good morning! Here are today’s most important news headlines for your school assembly on 16 February 2026. We’ve compiled the…
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Keith Haring: Painting the World with Colour and Activism
Keith Haring (4 May 1958 – 16 February 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New…
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How Indigenous ideas about non-linear time can help us navigate ecological crises
It is common to think of time as moving in only one direction – from point A, through point B,…
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4 lessons NZ should take from another summer of weather disasters
Another summer of extreme weather has destroyed and damaged homes, cut off communities and, in the most tragic cases, left…
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That e-bike you bought your teen might be an illegal electric motorbike – and the risks are real
A “health emergency”. A “total menace”. “Take them away and crush them”. E-bikes are in the news for all the…
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Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy
In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the…
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Addiction affects your brain as well as your body – that’s why detoxing is just the first stage of recovery
Addiction is one of the most common and consequential chronic medical conditions in the United States. Nationwide, more than 46…
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Polymers from earth can make cement more climate-friendly
Concrete is all around you – in the foundation of your home, the bridges you drive over, the sidewalks and…
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Hesitation is costly in sports but essential to life – neuroscientists identified its brain circuitry
At the Winter Olympics, skiers, bobsledders, speedskaters and many other athletes all have to master one critical moment: when to…
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FDA rejects Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine application – for reasons with no basis in the law
The Food and Drug Administration has refused to review an application from the biotech company Moderna to approve its mRNA-based…
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Trump says climate change doesn’t endanger public health – evidence shows it does, from extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses
The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America’s climate policies on Feb. 12, 2026. It…
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