Researchers created sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd

Mar 18, 2025 15:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science Health

What if you could listen to music or a podcast without headphones or earbuds and without disturbing anyone around you? Or have a private conversation in public without other people hearing you? Our newly published research...

Scientific misconduct is on the rise. But what exactly is it?

Mar 18, 2025 15:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

German anaesthesiologist Joachim Boldt has an unfortunate claim to fame. According to Retraction Watch, a public database of research retractions, he is the most retracted scientist of all time. To date, 220 of his roughly...

Less than 1% of the world’s biggest radio telescope is complete – but its first image reveals a sky dotted with ancient galaxies

Mar 18, 2025 15:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

Part of the worlds biggest mega-science facility the SKA Observatory is being built in outback Western Australia. After decades of planning, countless hours of work, and more than a few setbacks, an early working version...

Quantum technologies are changing our world – what does NZ need to be part of the next revolution?

Mar 11, 2025 14:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

As part of a major reform of the science sector, the government plans to set up a research organisation focused on emerging technologies, including quantum technologies. The first quantum revolution based on understanding...

What are the chances an asteroid will impact Earth in 2032?

Mar 02, 2025 16:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2032 specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to a high of 3.1 per cent on...

A new study reveals the structure of violent winds 1,300 light years away

Mar 02, 2025 16:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

The planet WASP-121b is extreme. Its a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star50 times closer than the Earth does around the Sun. WASP-121b is so close to its star that tidal forces...

What’s the shape of the universe? Mathematicians use topology to study the shape of the world and everything in it

Feb 27, 2025 11:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like youre living on a flat plane. After all, this is why you can navigate a new city using a map: a flat piece of paper that represents all the places around...