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Worrying trend on vaccination – new study

10 June 2020

Anti-vaccination attitudes in New Zealand are becoming more entrenched among almost a third of the population and the trend is a worrying one, researchers say.
Ethical issues central to digital contact tracing

10 June 2020

Digital contact tracing solutions for Covid-19 must ensure that legitimate ethical concerns have been identified and addressed, says Professor Tim Dare from the University of Auckland.
Ancient CO2 mystery solved at East Africa

4 June 2020

Around 90 percent of the Earth’s carbon is locked deep beneath the surface but a team of scientists has provided new understanding of how carbon accumulated under ancient continents can find its way to the surface as CO2.
Science Faculty staff named in Queen’s Birthday Honours

4 June 2020

An internationally renowned pioneering A pioneering mathematician and a professor of psychology who has worked for more than 30 years to help improve the youth justice system have been named in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.
University community rises to the challenge of creating solutions for New Zealand’s problems

28 May 2020

Covid-19 disruption, microplastics disposal, and marine health are just some of the many problems tackled in this year’s Velocity Innovation Challenge competition.
How AI is being used to lighten the load on painful knees

26 May 2020

Surgeons are using AI-driven software developed by the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) to operate on the knees of young patients, and have shown that it could dramatically reduce the recovery time of patients receiving a high-tibial osteotomy.
Dip in biodiversity at equator may pre-date fossil fuel industrial age

26 May 2020

New research shows that instead of marine biodiversity being highest at the equator as widely expected, it actually dips there.
Are you sure that’s the right way? – whales surprise researchers

25 May 2020

Satellite tracking of whales migrating from Australia and New Zealand to summer feeding grounds shows some southern right whales or tohorā are travelling in the opposite direction to what scientists expected.
ABI researchers to develop a more personalised approach to ventilator monitoring

25 May 2020

Ventilators save lives, but treating patients with mechanical ventilators is not without risk, a risk that Dr Haribalan Kumar, Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI), plans to reduce with a technology that will allow for more precise and dynamic monitoring of lung function at the bedside of a patient being treated with a ventilator.
Contact tracing apps explained

25 May 2020

Opinion: Speed is of the essence when breaking any chains of transmission, explains Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles, and that’s where contact tracing apps come in.
Covid-19 and the privacy trade-off

22 May 2020

Opinion: NZ has launched its app to help Covid-19 contract tracing. How does this compare with apps overseas and how can privacy be protected? Rizwan Asghar explains.
Uncovering the migration secrets of whales

20 May 2020

Genetic analysis of skin samples from southern right whales at feeding grounds in the southwest Atlantic Ocean shows the whales that gather there are more closely related to those in South America than to those in South Africa, scientists say.

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