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Research to cut the noise from above

17 September 2021

Thumps and thuds from the actions of people on the floor above is a common nuisance which can impact on the health and well-being of people living below.
Te whakahaere i te paraurehe ātea

16 September 2021

Kei te piki haere ngā amiorangi e amio haere ana i te ao i ia tau, ā, e whakarite ana ki te whakarewa anō i te maha noa atu. Engari nā te maha ka puta ko te paraurehe ātea me ngā mōrearea tuki mō ngā amiorangi me ngā waka ātea.
Resolving environmental costs of ID tracking tags

15 September 2021

As use of radio frequency identification tags grows, so does the problem of waste. Jenny Malmström explains how research into making tags biodegradable will help.
$13.5m boost for leading EV charging research

14 September 2021

Technology to wirelessly power heavy commercial vehicles quickly and on the move will be the game changer for switching freight fleets to electricity.
He mea nui te Reo i te wā e mātai ana i te hauora hinengaro

14 September 2021

Kātahi rawa ka kitea te nui o ngā ākonga o Te Kura Mātai Hinengaro e ako ana hei kaimātai hinengaro haumanu, ā, ko Tamara McDonald tētahi.
An engineering lesson from 9/11

11 September 2021

Opinion: Twenty years on from 9/11, Charles Clifton reflects on the collapse of World Trade Centre Building 7 and the lessons it left for structural engineers.
Bioengineers receive MBIE funding to develop ‘electroceutical’ to treat heart disease

10 September 2021

Researchers at the ABI have been awarded over $1 million by MBIE’s Endeavour Fund to develop an implantable medical device that activates nerves to treat heart disease.
Disabled kea uses tools for self-care

10 September 2021

Scientists say they’ve found the first evidence of tool use by a kea for the purpose of self-care, in a new study from the University of Auckland.
‘Smell of fear’ research awarded Ig Nobel

10 September 2021

Research on how the chemicals humans emit through breathing vary in response to audio-visual stimuli has been awarded the famous scientific parody prize, the Ig Nobel.
Using augmented reality to revisit ‘first contact’

3 September 2021

Mairi Gunn, PhD candidate with the ABI and the Design Programme, talks about Haptic Hongi, one of over 20 installations from New Zealand to feature in Garden Aotearoa, as part of Ars Electronica.
Architects and bioengineers create shape-shifting structure that talks in poetry

1 September 2021

How and why Tharindu Kaluarachchi, ABI, taught a 3-D structure to listen and converse with visitors using Artificial Intelligence and 60,000 poems.
Happy birthday, Ernest Rutherford

30 August 2021

Opinion: It’s the 150th birth anniversary of NZ’s most celebrated scientist, Ernest Rutherford. Richard Easther acknowledges the man who revealed a world made of atoms.

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