22 October 2020

Opinion: The effort to defeat the coronavirus relies on many layers of defense. Or, let’s call them, slices of cheese. Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles explains New Zealand’s Swiss cheese/Emmental model for managing Covid-19.

15 October 2020

Opinion: Australia and New Zealand have shown that democracies can be just as successful as the most autocratic regimes in combating Covid-19, writes Gehan Gunasekara.

14 October 2020

Opinion: The government has signed its first binding agreement to secure a Covid-19 vaccine. But what exactly is the vaccine, who’s likely to get it and when? Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles talks us through it.

13 October 2020

A series of pop-up art works created and built by students from the School of Architecture and Planning as part of their course work, is a key feature of Late Night Art in the City Centre, for one night.

13 October 2020

Intimacy and distance during a year of Covid lockdowns are the dominant themes of an exhibition opening at Old Government House this week.

9 October 2020

The imaginations of researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) have been unleashed, and to go on show in the Art of Bio Eng exhibition as part of Artweek 2020.

19 October 2020

Opinion: In a time of increasing economic hardship we need to talk about debt and let people know predatory loan sharks are not the only option, writes Claire Dale.

15 October 2020

Opinion: The space sector is one where technological marvels are widely celebrated. This creativity is inspiring, but it also has drawbacks, writes Nicholas Borroz.

15 October 2020

Opinion: Australia and New Zealand have shown that democracies can be just as successful as the most autocratic regimes in combating Covid-19, writes Gehan Gunasekara.

15 October 2020

A country where houses are unaffordable, renters are struggling and there is widespread homelessness is not a situation any government should tolerate.

15 October 2020

Opinion: It’s time for us to re-learn what children do naturally – sharing what we have – and abandon our aversion to tax, write Dr Niki Harré and Philip McKibbin.

8 October 2020

A national survey lead by a University of Auckland academic shows that benefit levels are too low and should be increased.

14 October 2020

Opinion: When it comes to the environment, we need to look away from the relay race of politics and think about how to give more people a seat at the decision table.

30 September 2020

As Auckland traffic volumes plummeted during New Zealand’s strictest lockdown, so did air pollution levels but a detailed analysis shows a more complex picture than might be expected.

24 September 2020

News reports regularly remind us that the environment is under threat from a raft of climate change effects including loss of biodiversity, melting ice sheets and devastating ‘climate fires’.

20 October 2020

New Zealand babies born to mothers prescribed methadone during pregnancy lagged behind their peers, from motor skills and reflexes to the ability to settle, a new study shows.

14 October 2020

Opinion: Aileen Collier explains the 'internal burden' people who qualify for the end of life choice act will feel, arguing for more palliative care support in NZ.

14 October 2020

Opinion: David Menkes is alarmed at how the current debate over the cannabis referendum has scarcely mentioned cannabis-induced psychosis. He explains why.

20 October 2020

Maria Romero De Medeiros and Danica Loulie-Wijtenburg have won the Justice Sir Robert Chambers Memorial Moot 2020 with their legal arguments concerning breach of privacy.

19 October 2020

Opinion: In a time of increasing economic hardship we need to talk about debt and let people know predatory loan sharks are not the only option, writes Claire Dale.

19 October 2020

Opinion: Labour has had a landslide win, but leading the country to success amid a global economic crisis is not going to be easy, explains Jennifer Lees-Marshment.

15 October 2020

Research shows kea have the ability to distinguish between two different-coloured 1080 baits but cannot detect the presence of bird repellent in baits of the same colour, findings which might have implications for future 1080 operations.

7 October 2020

Our knowledge of black holes has progressed rapidly in recent decades due to the development of highly sophisticated observatory technology called LIGO or the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

2 October 2020

Scientists have re-investigated a sixty-year-old idea by the American physicist P.W. Anderson and provided new insights into the quantum world.

9 October 2020

The Tertiary Education Commission has announced today that the University of Auckland will be hosting four of the 10 Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs), including one of two new Centres.

9 October 2020

The University of Auckland Pro-Vice Chancellor, Māori, Professor Cindy Kiro, has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi.

30 September 2020

Young voters had a chance to hear the party policies that affect them most in a lively debate hosted by the University with TVNZ at the Fale.

17 September 2020

Regional New Zealand is home to a leading medical imaging research centre tackling health inequities.

5 September 2020

The technology behind cryptocurrency is going to change the way the world handles information.

5 September 2020

Tech giants rule the world, making billions of dollars from our personal data. Could the ordinary Googling individual get a share of that?