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Rachel Fewster: saving lives using statistics

4 October 2021

Professor Rachel Fewster tells the story of how statistics and wildlife led to her joyful career.
Radical change needed in youth mental health

1 October 2021

Mental health services for youth are outdated, inhospitable and inaccessible to most young people and need a radical overhaul, a leading youth mental health researcher says.
Kea behave as if the virtual and real worlds are continuous

29 September 2021

Kea parrots treat virtual and real-world environments as continuous and equivalent, a new study by the University of Auckland published in Biology Letters shows.
Looking inside our bodies with physics

28 September 2021

MRI Physicist Dr Catherine Morgan is using the physics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to find early predictors of dementia.
Dementia's looming toll exposed in research report

28 September 2021

Dementia is set to cost $6 billion a year by 2050, posing a major risk to New Zealand’s health system, according to a University of Auckland report.
Regulating emotions key to getting through lockdown

27 September 2021

Learning to live with uncertainty and accepting negative emotions is key to being resilient in the face of lockdown, a new study shows.
For your mental health, pay attention

27 September 2021

Opinion: As we slowly emerge from lockdown and head into Mental Health Awareness Week, Margaret Stanley reflects on things that can help us through difficult times.
Kiwis quite keen on the idea of eating insects

23 September 2021

A majority of New Zealanders would be happy to try eating an insect even if they have never tasted one before, preliminary findings from a new study show.
World first: researchers identify potential cause and treatment for obesity and insulin resistance

21 September 2021

Researchers have shown for the first time that mesenteric (gut) lymphatic dysfunction is a potential cause of and therapeutic target for obesity and insulin resistance.
Using technologies of the future to piece together the past

20 September 2021

A world-leading project to analyse thousands of Māori stone artefacts has been funded at the University of Auckland.
University of Auckland scientist invents revolutionary method of safeguarding our waterways

17 September 2021

Risos Group investigates ways to rapidly and cost efficiently test water to detect waterborne contaminations using lasers.
Better mask guidelines needed to stop Covid-19

17 September 2021

Experts are calling on the Ministry of Health to improve its mask wearing guidelines to ensure New Zealanders are protected in the wake of highly transmissible variants of Covid-19.

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