University of Auckland

A study led by the University of Auckland has investigated how Atmospheric Rivers (ARs) drive surface water availability and extreme rainfall events.ARs are large flowing amounts of vapour water that occur in the atmosphere of…

A collaboration between University of Auckland digital media expert Dr Ethan Plaut, computer scientist Dr Danielle Lottridge, music technologist Dr Fabio Morreale, and the exhibitions and digital experience team at the museum, Eyes on…

A collaboration between researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) and Mātai Medical Research Institute in Tarāiwhiti Gisborne have used MRI scans to demonstrate that fidgeting, often seen in people with Attention Deficit…

A study of invasive wasps on an island off the coast of Coromandel Peninsula shows they share resources instead of competing with each other, a worrying result for conservation.Asian paper wasp Credit Julia SchmackIntroduced social wasps…

Health and medicine, Science and technology, Coronavirus, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Medical and Health SciencesAcute critical illness can result from many different initiating causes such as severe infection, trauma or inflammation…

Professor Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu), head of the School of Architecture, is one of 27 new Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellows and Ngā Ahurei Honore a Te Apārangi Honorary Fellows to be elected to the Academy of the Royal Society Te…

Students Britney Clasper and Bronwyn Wilde represented Auckland in the final mediation, which concerned a dispute between a small textile manufacturer and a distribution company specialising in products for tourists. The factual problem,…

Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) researchers are collaborating with Mātai, a medical imaging research centre in Tairāwhiti Gisborne, on what is possibly a world-first study that will help us understand more about cerebral palsy and…

Higher levels of CO2 affect the ability of young snapper to hear, according to a new study published by scientists from the University of Auckland, NIWA and James Cook University in Australia.Humans are releasing more carbon into the…

The widely held assumption that city children have lost their connection to nature is being challenged by experts in the field.We have traditionally thought about ‘urban’ as the opposite of ‘nature’, says Associate Professor Marek Tesar…