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NZ’s most celebrated mathematician dies

9 September 2020

New Zealand’s most celebrated mathematician, Sir Vaughan Jones, the only New Zealander to be awarded the maths equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal, has died aged 67.
‘Lab in a pocket’ awakens young minds to the world around them, making scientific inquiry fun

28 August 2020

Researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) have created a low-cost ‘lab in the pocket’ for schoolchildren.
How technology could be a real leveller

28 August 2020

Opinion: Mohsen Mohammadzadeh argues that we need national ‘soft infrastructure’ to reduce technology inequities that have been revealed during the pandemic.
University researchers answering the call for innovation acceleration in Covid response

26 August 2020

Seven projects from the University of Auckland have been awarded funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Covid-19 Innovation Acceleration Fund.
A message for our scientists

25 August 2020

Opinion: Our scientists are constantly fighting campaigns of misinformation. This should not be their job, writes Neal Curtis, who takes his hat off to them.
Tracking re-invasion of mice on offshore havens

19 August 2020

Scientists are highlighting the importance of biosecurity after a study shows how easily pests can re-invade islands.
Giving the hard robots a soft touch

6 August 2020

Robots are good at welding, packaging and assembling cars, but creating robots that have the sensitivity of a human hand remains a challenge, one that Dr Samuel Rosset and his team at the ABI aims to address.
University joins global consortium for vehicle electrification

6 August 2020

University of Auckland joins National Science Foundation-funded Engineering Research Centre for Electrified Transportation.
Solving the great NZ whale mystery

28 July 2020

Opinion: Emma Carroll is on her way to the Auckland Islands to try to unfold the mysteries of where tohorā go when they leave sub-Antarctica, and their ocean routes.
The quiet Earth

24 July 2020

As many daily activities came to a halt during lockdown, the Earth itself became quiet, probably quieter than it has been since humans developed the technology to listen in.
Remote tourism not just the stuff of science fiction

23 July 2020

Professor Mark Billinghurst is one of a panel of four experts talking about Tourism without Travel at TechWeek, on how Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality can be used to create a new type of tourism, which be safer, cheaper and better for the planet.
New technologies put more human-ness into the Zoom (and other remote) rooms

22 July 2020

As the pandemic obliged many of us to retreat from the real-world and into the remote one, researchers at the ABI got working on how to put more of the human dimension to Zoom and other teleconferencing platforms.

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