Our stories
When does using artificial intelligence lead to extinction?
We’ve been exploring how AI interacts with the environment by focusing on a mathematical model of a trap with an AI-guided system being used to try and control an invasive species.
The land that belongs to the river
The difference between land and riverbed is profound in our environmental law. Ground disturbance and many kinds of development are innocent until proven guilty on land, but guilty until proven innocent on riverbed.
The ecosystem of software
A zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a seemingly harmless Java logging framework, rocked the digital world in early December 2021
The blue coat and scientific hope
In her inaugural lecture, Cilla Wehi challenges us to reimagine who we are as New Zealanders, and how that relates to the work we do as researchers.
Call for abstracts: Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026
Te Pūnaha Matatini warmly invites you to the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
What makes our backyards happy spaces for us and nature
Backyards can be refuges for nature, dens for children, sources of food and nourishment, and spaces of speculation.
The choices we make today will affect the voice of tomorrow
How many people in Aotearoa speak te reo Māori? This may seem like a simple question to answer, but what looks simple often hides complexity.
Countdown – an extract from Shaun Hendy’s new book, The Covid Response
Just after 1.48 p.m. on Monday 23 March 2020, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that New Zealand would move to Alert Level 3 and then Alert Level 4 in the next forty-eight hours.
A new approach to tackling gender pay gaps in New Zealand’s public sector
A new study has developed a powerful new method to understand and address gender pay gaps in New Zealand’s public research sector – just as the country’s Crown Research Institutes face major restructuring.
Disrupting the currents causing health inequality
Health inequality is an ongoing process constantly shaping people’s lives.
The view beyond your valley
It’s 2025, and in Aotearoa New Zealand there are a growing number of people who believe that the Earth is flat.
The forest of discovery: Government research organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand
In 1926 the New Zealand government recognised that a more coordinated approach to research was essential for national development.