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Going Cuckoo: Parasites of the Avian World
Cuckoo birds have evolved remarkable strategies to get other bird species to raise their young for them.

Ella Speers
Oct 21, 20229 min read
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The Sword of Damocles —Virus, Bacteria & the History of Pandemics
Living in a pandemic is nothing new. A peek in time will reveal how human fate is always tangled with infectious diseases.

Sheeta Mo
Oct 21, 20227 min read
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Conquest of Spaces — A Review of James Webb Space Telescope’s First Five Images
A review of the first five images produced using the James Webb Space telescope, and their technical and historical significance.
You-Rong F. Wang
Oct 21, 202211 min read
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Voluntary Speed restriction in Tīkapa Moana; saving endangered Bryde’s Whales
A look at Tīkapa Moanas cetacean populations and how social interventions have helped save lives by minimising ship-strike in the gulf.

Danielle Lucas
Oct 21, 20225 min read
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Have We Got Alzheimer’s All Wrong? Research Fraud Threatens Science
Potential data fraud has undermined decades of Alzheimer's disease research with implications for the integrity of science as a whole.
Katherine McLean
Oct 21, 20227 min read
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The Silent Epidemic
A discussion of how and why Women’s Health is suffering in Aotearoa and around the world, through the lens of Endometriosis.

Milly Darragh
Oct 21, 20229 min read
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Humanity’s First Portrait of Sagittarius A* — the Supermassive Black Hole at the Core of Our Galaxy
This article describes the methods used to image the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
You-Rong F. Wang
Sep 13, 20227 min read
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Epidemic Modelling: Simulations using Stochastic Methods
Epidemics have been in the forefront of conversation about modelling in recent years. But how do they actually work? In this article, branch

Angeline Xiao
Sep 13, 20226 min read
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Patients Knee to Know: Evaluating the robustness of IMU-derived Knee Angle measurements
Inertial Measurement Units are changing the way orthopaedics and biomechanists collect data, but just how reliable are they?

Jae Min Seo
Sep 13, 202212 min read
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Measuring the Speed of Time
Recent advancements in highly precise and stable atomic clocks are discussed, as well as their use in modern technology that surrounds us.
Alex Chapple
Sep 10, 20226 min read
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Grief and Learning — the Limits in Our Current Research
We will all experience loss and grief at some point in our lives, yet it remains an area of research with a lot of gaps.

Alicia Anderson
Sep 10, 20224 min read
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Einstein’s Miracles Part 4: Mass-Energy Equivalence
Einstein’s final ‘miracle year’ paper gave us the most famous equation ever. We discuss its physical and historical significance.
Caleb Todd
Sep 10, 20224 min read
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A Self-Propelled Compass Needle: Places to Be, Bacteria to See!
What if we could biosynthesise our own compasses? Such a feat is the reality for the microbes that rely on the Earth’s magnetic field.

Steph Calridge
Sep 7, 20226 min read
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Einstein’s Miracles, Part 3: Relativity
Einstein’s third miracle year paper redefined how we perceive the fabric of our reality. This article explains his work from the ground up.
Caleb Todd
Jul 18, 202213 min read
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Are We Alone in the Universe?
Are we alone? Here, we briefly discuss theories like the Zoo hypothesis that aim to explain why we have not encountered extraterrestrial lif
Lucas Tan
Jul 18, 20227 min read
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Inside the Hive: the Science Behind our Beloved Honey Bees’ Evolutionary Behaviours
The science behind how honey bees seem to have escaped the all-encompassing drive to reproduce that most species on earth experience.

Ella Speers
Jul 18, 20225 min read
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Mysterious Wolbachia Bacterium Helps Fight the Dengue Virus
Wolbachia symbiosis reduces DENV infectivity in A. aegypti mosquitoes. Known for years, however, mysterious, we explore the proposed mechani
Sarah Moir
Jul 18, 20224 min read
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Gene-Editing: Where Do We Draw the Line?
Is it right to enhance ourselves through gene-editing? What is the difference between somatic and germline gene-editing?
Here we discuss cur
Lucas Tan
Apr 18, 202210 min read
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Pinpointing Breast Cancer From a Bioengineering Perspective
We review state-of-the-art bioengineering approaches developed to address challenges in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Max Dang Vu
Apr 18, 202210 min read
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The Ecology of Undesirable Organisms
Several organisms are considered by many to be lacking a useful role in the environme...
Can viewing the ecology of these ‘pest’ organism...
Jasmine Gunton
Apr 18, 20229 min read
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