England's High Court has cleared the way for a major NHS-backed clinical trial examining puberty blockers in children experiencing gender incongruence, rejecting a legal...
A researcher has renewed criticism of former top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci, arguing that his early public estimates of COVID-19 mortality significantly overstated...
The arrival of biometric payment terminals in New Zealand has reignited debate over privacy, identity and whether optional conveniences are changing how people prove...
A newly published Californian study has reported an association between fluoride exposure during pregnancy and poorer gross motor development in infants, adding to the...
The evidence for reversing chronic disease and improving metabolic and mental health is here. New Zealand's biggest political parties aren't listening.
With a general election...
Much loved Kiwi actor Sam Neill has died suddenly. In March 2023 Neill announced he had been diagnosed with Stage 3 angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (a rare...
The lab-made ‘SpudCell’ has replicated several key functions of living organisms, researchers at the University of Minnesota say.
Scientists in the US have built a...
You have probably heard computer analogies used to explain how DNA works. Computers have properties that are fixed by precise programming and hardware.
In these...
The country’s health minister has apologised after breaching a court order that suspended the project over ethical concerns.
The Kenyan Health Ministry has suspended construction...
This article addresses some of the most profound philosophical and spiritual questions that we ask as we seek to understand our existence.
It challenges some...
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and other executives have said AI advances could weaken biosecurity barriers.
Executives from leading AI companies have joined biotechnology experts in...
The human mind is truly amazing.
Its history of innovative achievement stretches back far further in time than we imagined. The colossal and intricate megalithic...
Washington for years rejected Russian allegations of the existence of the secret program, before finally admitting it.
Russia’s allegations that the US-funded clandestine biological laboratories...
Advocacy group No More Glyphosate NZ says major scientific and regulatory questions remain unresolved despite the withdrawal of a Court of Appeal challenge against...
Russia has long raised concerns about Pentagon-backed biological laboratories in Ukraine and elsewhere, suggesting they are involved in military research.
The US has launched a...
Within academia, there seems to be a growing consensus that the peer-review system—once the backbone of academic scholarship—is broken.
But is it irreparably so? Perhaps....
The international scientific process that supplies climate scenarios for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has formally dumped the controversial high-emissions “RCP8.5” and...
At least ten experts linked to classified aerospace and nuclear programmes have died or gone missing since 2023.
US President Donald Trump has ordered an...
Three rounds of testing show some bread products repeatedly return non-detect results, while others show measurable residues across batches.
A third round of independent testing...
Disclaimer: If Covid-19 were linked to animal vaccine research, it would be an unintended consequence, though the institutional response was anything but accidental.
The new...
In his column Biosafety Now, Dr. Simon Wain-Hobson revisits controversial gain of function research conducted in 2014 funded by US NIH contract HHSN26620070001 which successfully...
One of the most suggestive allusions to Artificial Intelligence that I have come across lately came from Renaud Beauchard, a French journalist writing for...
Six years on from the pandemic the questions that remain unanswered can only be answered from a rigorous scientific perspective.
It is remarkable that the...
In our article “Some Hard Sobering Truths Are Beginning to Sink in" we reported that Health Services in highly vaccinated countries are beginning to...
International health authorities are reassessing how pesticide residues in food are judged to be safe, following a quiet move by the World Health Organization...
Growing dangers from biotechnology experimentation
We understand that the security services are charged with protecting a nation from internal conflict and foreign interference. You have...
A newly published global analysis has identified 3,625 'high-containment' biological laboratories operating worldwide, raising fresh questions about transparency, safety oversight, and biosecurity preparedness.
The research,...