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Cutting-edge festival brings together digital art, technology and virtual experience

29 August 2021

Ars Electronica is coming to Aotearoa New Zealand, co-hosted by the University of Auckland and Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, an event that showcases installations at the nexus of art, technology, and society.
University experiment mimics Covid-19

24 August 2021

A virus transmission experiment uses a framework called Safe Blues, where virtual tokens are spread via Bluetooth between the phones of participants.
Lockdown challenging for families

17 August 2021

The 2020 Covid-19 level four lockdown placed considerable strain on families with loss of income, balancing work and childcare and social isolation.
Scholarship for research on tohorā

11 August 2021

Institute of marine sciences masters student Annabelle Cranswick has received a scholarship for research investigating the diet and foraging ecology of southern right whales or tohorā.
New technology to take temperature of the feet of diabetics

2 August 2021

Researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) have received funding to trial a portable temperature-sensing technology to detect the early signs of complications of the feet among people with Diabetes 2.
Getting pre-schoolers on board with the science of vision testing

30 July 2021

A technology designed by researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) to test the eyesight of pre-schoolers has been awarded $1.2 million by the Health Research Council (HRC), which will enable the researchers to put it to the test in childcare centres in south Auckland.
University of Auckland pledges more openness on animal research

27 July 2021

The University of Auckland has signed up to a New Zealand agreement pledging openness on the use of animals in research and teaching.
Devices distract parents

26 July 2021

Parents who turn off the audible notifications on their mobile phones have the best chance of expanding their child’s vocabulary.
Lockdown: when the ocean went quiet

22 July 2021

As New Zealand’s first Covid-19 lockdown began on 26 March 2020, the country’s busiest coastal waterway, the Hauraki Gulf, became devoid of almost all non-essential vessels. And noise levels plunged.
It's Moth Week!

20 July 2021

For the first time New Zealand is joining international Moth Week, a week that celebrates all things moth.
Pākehā identity in changing times

19 July 2021

In parts of the world, including New Zealand, a series of major social movements are confronting racism and challenging the sense that being white is normal and preferred.
What does 'rough sex' actually mean?

13 July 2021

Researchers are embarking on a study to find out more about what some people call ‘rough sex’ and what they think the term means.

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