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Switching from smoking to Electronic Delivery Systems: Changing practices and identities

Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) – commonly known as E-cigarettes or vapes - could potentially support the smokefree 2025 goal, but switching from smoking to ENDS involves more than replacing one nicotine source with another

Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Difficult Histories

How do New Zealanders remember and forget difficult e...
  • RESEARCHER/S:
    Professor Joanna Kidman and Dr Vincent O'Malley
  • ORGANISATION:
    Victoria University of Wellington and History Works

Injection nanomachines – learning from nature to revolutionise drug delivery

Beneath Aotearoa Ne...
  • RESEARCHER/S:
    Associate Professor Alok Mitra
  • ORGANISATION:
    The University of Auckland

New type of micro laser source suitable for commercialisation

Associate Professors Stuart Murdoch ...
  • RESEARCHER/S:
    Associate Professor Stuart Murdoch
  • ORGANISATION:
    University of Auckland

At life’s edge: How genes flow in hot spring bacteria

Microbiologists have long debated how to d...
  • RESEARCHER/S:
    Dr Charles Lee
  • ORGANISATION:
    University of Waikato

Greedy algae that are great for our environment

Phosphorus fertilizers are extremely expensive for...
  • RESEARCHER/S:
    Professor Benoit Guieysse, Professor Emilio Fernández Reyes, Professor Andrew Shilton and Dr David Wheeler
  • ORGANISATION:
    Massey University

Whakaarahia anō te rā kaihau! Raise up again the billowing sail! Revitalising cultural knowledge through analysis of Te Rā, the Māori sail
  • RESEARCHER/S:
    Dr Catherine Smith, Dr Donna Campbell and Mrs Ranui Ngarimu
  • ORGANISATION:
    University of Otago

Transnational matai: Examining the experiences of intergenerational global Samoan titled chiefs
  • RESEARCHER/S:
    Dr Melani Anae
  • ORGANISATION:
    University of Auckland

Game over for Loot Boxes?

The UK may begin regulating the use of Loot Boxes because of research li...
  • RESEARCHER/S:
    Dr Aaron Drummond
  • ORGANISATION:
    Massey University

Auckland – New faces, new voices?

Astonishingly, research over the last three decades on New Zea...
  • RESEARCHER/S:
    Professor Miriam Meyerhoff, Dr Elaine Ballard, Dr Helen Charters, Dr Catherine Watson
  • ORGANISATION:
    Victoria University of Auckland

Pigment discovery sheds new light on the environmental tolerance mechanisms of land plants

About 4...
  • RESEARCHER/S:
    Dr Kevin Davis
  • ORGANISATION:
    Plant and Food Research

Has Intensive-Fishing Shaped Snapper Evolution?
  • RESEARCHER/S:
    Dr Peter Ritchie and Tom Oosting (PhD Candidate)
  • ORGANISATION:
    Victoria University of Wellington

Guess Who? Understanding lifelong face blindness

With his Marsden Fund grant, Dr Tirta Susilo from...
  • RESEARCHER/S:
    Tirta Susilo
  • ORGANISATION:
    Victoria University of Wellington

Stressed-out mums and demanding children

Modern society is rooted in a dependency on agriculture. ...
  • Modern society is rooted in a dependency on agriculture...

Dr Clemency Montelle revealing the “many faces of mathematics”

Reading mathematical texts in S...
  • Reading mathematical texts in Sanskrit sounds like an insurmountable challenge to many people. Yet it is a challenge that Dr Clemency Montelle relishes.

Ada Lovelace Day profiles

Ada Lovelace Day is about celebrating women in science, technology, engi...
  • Ada Lovelace Day is about celebrating women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM)...

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