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What do mathematicians do if machines are doing all the math?

21 March 2019

For thousands of years, calculation – numerical and symbolic – was the price we had to pay to do or use mathematics. But that is no longer the case.
Emerging Scientist Award for ABI researcher

18 March 2019

A researcher from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, who is leading the world with his development of devices that help in the fast, reliable diagnosis and treatment of gut problems, has won the Prime Minister’s 2018 MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize.
Climate change – the kids know it’s not OK

15 March 2019

Opinion: School kids striking in protest at climate change will one day look back at us and question why we thought doing nothing was okay, write Professor Shaun Hendy.
Rats just kept on coming

11 March 2019

Introduced rats have thrived since being introduced into New Zealand but a new study shows they not only spread rapidly through population growth, new arrivals kept jumping ship well into the 20th Century.
Hello darkness my old friend

11 March 2019

Opinion: Light outshines darkness in the PR department, we feel safe and our day is long. But night time and darkness are key to good health, Ellery McNaughton explains.
Trauma passed on through genes

11 March 2019

Liggins Institute researcher Dr Tatjana Buklijas has been looking into the growing knowledge of intergenerational trauma - the idea that the effects of trauma can be passed on to the next generation, experience written into your DNA.
Sir Peter Gluckman named NZ Communicator of the Year

8 March 2019

The Prime Minister’s former Chief Science Advisor and founder of the University of Auckland-based Liggins Institute has been named winner of the 2018 Communicator of the Year Award.
The sector with the marked gender imbalance

8 March 2019

Opinion: The theme for International Women’s Day is a more gender-balanced world. We are striving for the same goal in engineering, writes Professor Nic Smith.
Social and cultural lives of animals vital tool for conservation

27 February 2019

Young animals learn social and cultural behaviours from the adults around them just like humans do and now scientists say these learned social behaviours could be a powerful tool for conservation.
Positive signs for potential autism treatment

26 February 2019

A potential drug therapy for neurodevelopmental disorders discovered at the University of Auckland has shown positive results in pre-clinical trials for Phelan-McDermid syndrome. This rare genetic condition involves the same gene thought to be associated with autism.
Why we should celebrate NZ’s latest fruit fly detection

22 February 2019

Opinion: Fruit fly detections are really New Zealand’s biosecurity system operating at its best, writes Biological Sciences Professor Jacqueline Beggs.
More Kiwi scientists becoming business leaders and entrepreneurs

22 February 2019

The Maurice Wilkins Centre is hosting a full-day workshop at Victoria University of Wellington for young scientists keen to learn more about how to commercialise their work.

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