Apr 7, 2020 | Science & Technology
By Ignacio López-Goñi Studies of numerous antiviral treatments and potential vaccines are already underway. Never has science advanced so much in such a short period of time to combat an epidemic. Just three months after China first notified the World Health...
Apr 6, 2020 | Business & Economics
By Stefano Riela Stefano Riela looks at whether Covid-19 will change access to essential goods globally. For years, globalisation made it possible to geographically distribute economic activities. In ‘normal’ times, when the fluidity of trade is...
Apr 4, 2020 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By Ben Goldson Having agreed to restrict production in recent years, it appears that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Russian Federation have been racing to outdo the other in crashing the price of oil. Having agreed to restrict production in recent years, it...
Apr 2, 2020 | Science & Technology
What are the psychological States of COVID-19? How do we respond to fear and anxiety amidst threat and uncertainty? In this podcast, psychiatrists Lillian Ng and Rob Shieff discuss fear, anxiety and our responses to them. Lillian Ng is a Senior Lecturer in...
Mar 31, 2020 | Science & Technology
By Christian Yates With basic mathematical models, researchers can begin to forecast the progression of diseases and understand the effect of interventions on disease spread. Disease has afflicted humans ever since there have been humans. Malaria and tuberculosis are...
Mar 30, 2020 | Science & Technology
By Lotti Tajouri Viruses are the most common biological entities on Earth. Experts estimate there are around 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them, and if they were all lined up they would stretch from one side of the galaxy to the other. You can think of...
Mar 25, 2020 | Business & Economics, Referee, Science & Technology
New Zealand has a dirty rivers problem. In 2017, two-thirds of the country’s rivers were deemed too polluted to swim in. Given this, research is being carried out to find ways in which the country can attempt to clean up its rivers. Ngārie Scartozzi is a student...
Mar 23, 2020 | Business & Economics
A new bill surrounding organic farming in New Zealand, as well as imports and exports, is currently going through parliament. The bill outlines plans to get stricter on what is defined as organic and what is not. But what are the differences between conventional and...
Mar 18, 2020 | Science & Technology
By Beth Linas The virus apparently emerged in Wuhan, China. How does a virus that starts in one place spread around the world? The short answer is that we live in a global economy that includes frequent domestic and international travel, and viruses often hitch rides...
Mar 18, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Matthew Stephenson One of the most popular reform measures for combating public corruption is the establishment or strengthening of requirements that public officials regularly file declarations of assets and income sources. One of the most popular reform measures...