In the face of US President Donald Trump’s wavering commitments and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inscrutable ambitions, the talk in European capitals is all about rearmament. To that end, the Eu...
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From prototype to construction site: how innovative smart materials make it out of the lab and into our cities
Building material made from recycled plastic waste. Rene Notenbomer/Shutterstock The construction industry accounts for approximately 37% of global CO₂ emissions. Traditional materials like cement, st...
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NZ Budget 2025: science investment must increase as a proportion of GDP for NZ to innovate and compete
Shutterstock/Olivier Le Queinec A lack of strategy and research funding – by both the current and previous governments – has been well documented, most comprehensively in the first report by the Scien...
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For a Canadian in London, King Charles’ Royal Garden Party inspires sustainability education
On a glorious afternoon recently, I had the good fortune to attend a specially themed Education and Skills Garden Party hosted at Buckingham Palace in London to celebrate the contributions of educator...
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Challenges to high-performance computing threaten US innovation
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer is one of the world's fastest. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, CC BY High-performance computing, or HPC for short, might sound...