US doctors will soon be advised not to prescribe the pain reliever paracetamol to pregnant women, US President Donald Trump ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting to review childhood vaccine recommendations in the US. The ...

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Young contact sports players' brains can show signs of damage years before symptoms of long-term brain disease appear, a ...

International researchers who studied the merging of two black holes say their new observations match theories developed by Stephen Hawking and NZ scientist Roy Kerr over half a century ago. Professor ...

An emergency set net fishing ban to protect yellow-eyed penguins around the Otago Peninsula begins at 5 pm today. The ...

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Five well-publicised geoengineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change in the polar regions are "extremely ...