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New Zealander becomes Fellow of the Royal Society
7 May 2021
An Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland has been elected to the Royal Society of London.
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Existing reserves too small to protect crayfish
4 May 2021
Even inside fully-protected marine reserves crayfish numbers have plummeted and numbers outside reserves are likely much lower than official estimates, a new University of Auckland study shows.
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Myna information: study tracks history of pesky birds in New Zealand
30 April 2021
Student Annika Beesley is digging into the history of myna birds in New Zealand.
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Astrophysicist Heloise Stevance: space junkie on wheels
30 April 2021
Dr Heloise Stevance is a coder, gamer and an astrophysicist who’s smashing down gender stereotype walls, as well as smashing people in roller derby.
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The 150-year-old mystery disease killing two New Zealanders a week
29 April 2021
New Zealand has one of the world’s worst rates of a fatal brain disease. Now, scientists hunting rogue genes hope to unravel the 150-year-old mystery of what triggers the disease and how to find a cure.
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Crowdfunding hard work for campaigners
28 April 2021
Crowdfunded campaigns are stressful and uncertain for the people running them who must ‘marketise’ their campaign in order to be successful, a new study shows.
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Everything to play for in new health reforms
22 April 2021
Opinion: Peter Davis takes a look at the Government’s newly-announced health system reforms and how they might affect different sectors of our society.
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Why animal culture matters for conservation
21 April 2021
Researchers say conservation of some of the world’s most endangered species needs to take cultural knowledge of the animals into account when working out how best to protect them.
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Students involved in virus experiment
21 April 2021
Hundreds of students at the University of Auckland are about to get involved in an experiment that could help better understand how viruses like Covid-19 spread.
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Dissolving the interface between humans and computers
20 April 2021
For many people, it’s become impossible to imagine life without a smartphone.
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A super model for the team of 5 million
15 April 2021
The nation's Covid-19 response has relied heavily on contagion modelling. Dion O'Neale is leading work to build a unique model that mirrors the myriad connections of the entire population of New Zealand.
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Prime Minister recognises transformative science
13 April 2021
The 2020 Prime Minister's Science Prize has been awarded to Te Pūnaha Matatini for their contribution to Aotearoa New Zealand’s Covid-19 response.
