Latest from Trailblazers - Health & Science
Covid-19: Mystery surrounds recent cases - here's why officials say risks are low
Authorities investigating after three passengers leave NZ and test positive to Covid-19.
Dunedin-made ventilator hood to be mass produced
Ventilator hoods that may eliminate the need for respirators are to be mass produced.
'School never safer for kids', say infectious disease experts
Children less susceptible to Covid-19 and lockdown limiting other viruses, say experts.
Lockdown stress: Free mental health services roll out to more districts
Government inject further $40 million into free mental health services.
Covid 19 cuts Kiwi beach season short, brings new surf life saving challenges
Preventable drownings are up, but rescues down as Covid-19 ends NZ beach season early.
Construction workers ready to dig in on transport projects
AT has also made advanced payments to contractors to help keep workers employed.
Waikato emergency doctors working on new life-saving ventilators.
Waikato emergency doctors Giles Chanwai and Martyn Harvey working with plastics engineer Jeff Sharp on new life-saving ventilators. Video / Supplied
Microbiologist's secrets to really cleaning your home
We spend 90 per cent of our time indoors, so it's important our homes are clean and safe.
Eliminating Covid-19 in NZ is 'pie in the sky' fantasy: Former finance minister
Steven Joyce says we won't understand huge lockdown damage until later.
Second coronavirus case at Auckland rest home
An elderly man contracts virus two weeks after nurse tested positive at his rest home.
Heavy police presence on city beaches one day after swimming banned
Aucklanders tempted to flout lockdown laws were met with heavy police presence.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Flatmates boot nurse from house over coronavirus fears
One nurse has been booted from her house and another barrred from the supermarket.
Minecraft, Sims and making slime: Perfect intro for girls to science and technology
Trailblazers in business and STEM and how they are attracting girls to the industries.
'Enviro wāhine warrior': Cartoonist's drastically sustainable life
Profile: How Tauranga cartoonist Mig McMillan forged a path towards sustainable living.
Meth prices plummet, sparking fears of more users
Prices for methamphetamine continue to drop around the country despite big seizures.
Trailblazers: Dame Margaret Sparrow
Trailblazing doctor and advocate for legal abortions in New Zealand
Beatrice Tinsley: The Kiwi boffin who has been compared to Einstein
World-renowned astrophysicist and trailblazer for women in science.
Trailblazers: Edith Farkas
Pioneering meteorologist who helped discover the hole in the ozone layer
Trailblazers: Ingrid Visser
World-leading expert in Orca whales and animal welfare advocate
Trailblazers: Joan Wiffen
History-making palaeontologist, who discovered the first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand
Trailblazers: Kathleen Curtis
Pioneering scientist and the first female fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Trailblazers: Pamela Young
Pioneering researcher and one of the first women to set foot on the South Pole