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Scientists investigate music as dementia treatment

5 December 2025

As dementia numbers soar, can music play a larger role in New Zealand's response?
Bumper breeding season for kākāpō on the cards

3 December 2025

Kākāpō may be about to have their biggest breeding season since records began.
Michael Steedman: a different path

1 December 2025

Kapa haka and Māori martial arts helped Michael Steedman connect to his Māoritanga. Now he's supporting students to find their own paths.
Photography win for scientist

1 December 2025

Research fellow Dr Edin Whitehead has won the wildlife category of the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year competition.
Tiny microbes could make New Zealand's drinking water safer

1 December 2025

A team of engineers are using nature's own chemistry to remove nitrate from drinking water without releasing greenhouse gas emissions.
Deep-sea expedition to research mega earthquakes

21 November 2025

University of Auckland scientists are part of an international team exploring the geology of the Japan Trench.
‘Roadside drug testing’s puritanical political agenda’

18 November 2025

Opinion: Cannabis, ecstasy, meth and cocaine are the only drugs being added to the new roadside testing regime. Why is driving impaired permissible if caused by legally prescribed drugs, asks Nikolai Siimes.
The strange science of the silent mind

17 November 2025

One in 125 people have a silent mind – no earworms, no internal voices. Scientists are investigating how consciousness works without sound.
How life got moving: Nature’s ingenious motor

12 November 2025

Scientists look into how some of the earliest life on Earth, bacteria, got moving.
Goodbye, tangled cords - hello, SmartPowerBox

10 November 2025

Engineers at the University of Auckland are developing Wi-Fi-style charging that powers devices seamlessly through the air.
7 tips to keep your New Year's resolutions

5 November 2025

As 2025 draws to an end, psychologist Lily Stadlober shares seven tips to help us keep to our resolutions for the year ahead.
The brain, the body and the power of art

4 November 2025

How does science explain moments when we are captivated by the arts? Janet McAllister goes in search of new research that explores the ways in which to be human is to need the arts.

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