Professor Murray Cox has been appointed co-director of Te Pūnaha Matatini, joining Professor Cilla Wehi in leading the Centre ...

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 ...

One day in 1967, strange letters began arriving in letterboxes in Omaha, Nebraska. The letters had the name of a stockbroker in Boston, Massachusetts and instructions to send them on to a friend or ...

Imagine you're watching a river flow through a beautiful valley. At first glance, the river seems peaceful, carrying water gently downstream. But if you look closely, you'll notice the current shaping ...

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 ...

Te Pūnaha Matatini is bringing acclaimed evolutionary biologist and science system researcher Professor Carl Bergstrom (University of Washington) to New Zealand in February 2026 for a series of public ...

“It was two of the most exciting days of my career,” says Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Associate Professor Jonathan Tonkin.

On Tuesday 14 April 1970, astronauts on the spacecraft Apollo 13 let Houston know they had a problem. An oxygen tank had exploded, and there was damage to the main engine. With the clock ticking, NASA ...

The New Zealand Government's decision to restructure the Marsden Fund and Catalyst Fund is more than a simple budgetary adjustment – it is a pivotal moment. This decision comes in the context of ...

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 ...

This is the second of a series of posts on complexity. We’ll be exploring some of the ways that studying complex systems gives us a more nuanced way of understanding the world, how this is relevant to ...

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 ...