Te Pūnaha Matatini is bringing acclaimed evolutionary biologist and science system researcher Professor Carl Bergstrom to New ...

We live in a world more complex, interdependent, and entangled than at any point in human history — from shifting climates to fragile democracies. Yet our sciences, including complexity science, still ...

Scientific researchers may be driven by curiosity, but they are constrained by the realities of the scientific ecosystems in which they operate and motivated by the incentives with which they are ...

Applications are invited for a masters scholarship at the University of Canterbury to work on the impacts of extreme climate events for coastal systems and communities. Extreme events such as droughts ...

During my residency with Te Pūnaha Matatini, I created Ongo mei he fonua – Sounds of soil (contamination), a work that explores the interconnections between land, people, and environmental histories.

New Zealand’s economic complexity has fallen over the last two decades. On page 13 of MBIE and MFAT’s new long-term insights briefing on New Zealand’s productivity in a changing world, they note that ...

Ngā mihi nui to our treasured Kaumātua Professor Tom Roa (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato, Ngāti Apakura), who has been made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year 2026 Honours. On 14 ...

Soil is complex. Beautiful. Wondrous. It gives us food, foundations and filters the air we breathe and water we drink. In a very literal way, soil is also a part of us. Our bodies are not discrete ...

Ngā mihi ki a tātou. Tuatahi – tēnei te mihi nui ki ngā kaikōrero, mō rātou whakaaro, moemoea, wawata. First – our huge thanks to the contributors, for their thoughts, dreams, aspirations. Tuarua – ...

Before I started working as a research assistant on the Hidden Networks project, the only woman from the history of New Zealand science I could name was Joan Wiffen, the “dinosaur lady” who discovered ...

It’s 2025, and in Aotearoa New Zealand there are a growing number of people who believe that the Earth is flat. That’s an extraordinary statement, coming from a technologically advanced society living ...