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News
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Unique engineering programme develops leadership mindset
29 April 2025
If it was ever true that engineering is all about turning hard materials into structures and machines to support human life that is certainly no longer the case.
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Students’ musical adventures in a Viennese café
29 April 2025
It seems like a dream to see an opera by Mozart that no one in the world has ever seen before.
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International showing for powerful exhibition
29 April 2025
The Gus Fisher Gallery has achieved a remarkable first: an international showing for a groundbreaking exhibition launched at the gallery in June 2024 and developed in partnership with City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi.
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NZ a ‘unique laboratory’ for influenza research
29 April 2025
New Zealand’s successful elimination of Covid-19 during the early stages of the pandemic not only saved lives but also provided a unique opportunity for world-leading research into the transmission and impact of influenza.
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Researchers’ quest to find cure for spinal cord injury
29 April 2025
Spinal cord injury is indiscriminate. No class, race, gender or age is immune. It becomes all consuming, because it’s a life sentence and New Zealand has one of the highest rates of spinal cord injury in the western world.
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NZ’s Long Covid blind spot
29 April 2025
Analysis: Healthcare workers urgently need access to education to recognise the complexity of Long Covid, and the lack of a unified clinical definition continues to hinder diagnosis, clinical care, and research, says Anna Brooks.
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Ordinary people, real power: can democracy be more democratic?
28 April 2025
Ingenious podcast: Citizens' Assemblies – ordinary people coming together to make tough political decisions – are gaining traction in a world where traditional democracy is under fire.
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One Tree Hill terraces too steep to weather storm
28 April 2025
Human modification and extreme rainfall triggered 19 landslides on pa site terraces on Maungakiekie two years ago, researchers have found.
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Atoll research wins global recognition
28 April 2025
University of Auckland scientists are finalists in a global competition for solutions to the ecological crisis.
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Meet Taddy, a robot fish with muscle and smarts
24 April 2025
Auckland Bioengineering Institute's polymer-powered robot fish has had its first outing – a very public swim at a conference in Vancouver.
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Tremors, seizures and paralysis: brain disorder often goes undiagnosed
24 April 2025
What is Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and why is so difficult to recognise and treat?
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How NZ should respond to the post 'liberation-day' order
23 April 2025
Analysis: Trump's tariffs are shifting the global order, and NZ and similar economies could pursue strategic bilateral trade agreements in response. But a renewed vigour for multilateralism would be even better, says Asha Sundaram.