Waipapa Taumata Rau launches Youth Advisory Group
Waipapa Taumata Rau has teamed up with high schools across Tāmaki Makaurau and Pōneke to learn how to better engage with incoming rangatahi students.
VR technology could enhance remote medical consults
Canterbury researchers at UC’s HIT Lab NZ are exploring how virtual reality could be used as a tool during remote medical assessments.
The Power of Education: Teach for Australia
Teach for Australia seeks to break the cycle of educational inequity by partnering exclusively with schools that serve low socio-economic communities...
New Professorship in AI established with S$6 million gift from Chen Yidan Foundation
The Chen Yidan Foundation, started by Dr Charles Chen Yidan, a Core Founder of Tencent, one of Asia’s largest internet companies, has pledged a gift of S$6 million to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore).
Astronomy Open Night 2022
After a two-year hiatus, Astronomy Open Night is back and bigger than ever this year and you’re invited to explore the Universe like never before!!
New study reveals ‘invisible’ glacier loss in the greater Himalaya
A new study involving scientists from the University of St Andrews reveals that the mass loss of lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya has been significantly underestimated due to the inability of satellites to see glacier changes occurring underwater.
Department of Energy funds milestone North Carolina-led initiative to advance solar energy research
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will provide $100 million in funding to new artificial photosynthesis research projects...
New research proves diet can put Type 2 diabetes into remission
A team of researchers from Teesside University and the University of British Columbia has published a study showing that people can effectively control their Type 2 diabetes through diet...
When will global heating make the summer Olympics untenable?
As athletes prepare for the most gruelling event of the summer Olympics, the marathon, scientists ponder what climate change will mean for the games.
Can mRNA vaccines affect my genetic code?
This opinion piece, by Associate Professor Archa Fox from the UWA School of Human Sciences and School of Molecular Sciences and her colleagues, was published in The Conversation on Friday 25 June 2021.















































