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From algal blooms to infant health: new nitrate sensors for detecting water pollution

9 September 2026

Engineering researchers are developing low-cost sensors that could transform how New Zealand monitors nitrate in its freshwater ecosystems.
Pacific Science Research Symposium explores future of Pacific-led science

4 September 2026

Pacific Science Research Symposium, The Future of Pacific-Led Science, held 3 September brought together established, new and emerging academics.
How underwater ‘booms’ could warn of deadly volcanic tsunamis

3 September 2026

The Tongan eruption of 2022 has potential lessons for tsunami monitoring, writes Professor Shane Cronin.
Chemist Penny Brothers will head Royal Society

3 September 2026

Professor Penny Brothers, an honorary academic with the University's School of Chemical Sciences, will head the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
My Space: feeling the force at the University's wind tunnel

1 September 2026

Well, blow me away - the University is home to New Zealand's largest wind tunnel.
Could AI develop goals of its own?

31 August 2026

What does it mean to have agency? A $650,000 award will let a University of Auckland scientist investigate.
NZ’s bird flu response must keep adapting, say experts

28 August 2026

Analysis: The confirmation of Australia’s first mainland death of a mammal from bird flu last week highlights New Zealand’s challenge to manage the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.
Sound thinking: how 30 years of tinnitus research became a start-up

25 August 2026

Professor Grant Searchfield spent 30 years tackling the “gnarly problem” of tinnitus. His University of Auckland research is behind TrueSilence Therapeutics, a digital health start-up taking a personalised tinnitus treatment from the lab to patients.
Girls-only schools outperformed as pathways to STEM

21 August 2026

Students from girls-only schools were overrepresented among female students studying Engineering and Computer Science at university.
Why having an AI hub is no guarantee of wealth

20 August 2026

Opinion: New Zealand wants to be an AI hub but risks being more of a concierge service, supplying land, water and power to host big data services but receiving little economic benefit, writes PhD student Angus Dowell.
Young voices sought for pioneering palliative care research

19 August 2026

Research calling on young people with life-limiting health conditions to better understand navigating serious illness during adolescence and early adulthood.
I spent four years slamming yacht hulls in a tank

11 August 2026

Predicting wave impacts is one of the toughest challenges in marine engineering. Dr Connor Pearson slammed carbon-fibre hull sections into water, exposing critical flaws in boat-design methods.

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