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Leave your phone at home this holiday and you’ll feel better (after you feel worse)

What did we do before smartphones? Our devices have become an essential tool for modern life, even when we’re on holiday.

Climate explained: why plants don’t simply grow faster with more carbon dioxide in air

Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is warming our climate, but it also affects plants directly.

AUT supports writers festival

For the second consecutive year, AUT is supporting the Going West Books & Writers Festival.

Scholarships for today and tomorrow

AUT student Hamideh Gholizadeh, has received not one, but two scholarships. Read her inspiring story.

Five questions with Prof. Matthew Ryan

We asked Professor Matthew Ryan five questions about his research ahead of his Inaugural Professorial Address.

Initiate.Collaborate: Card game makes collaboration easy

AUT’s Good Health Design lab have designed a card game, Initiate.Collaborate, to help make teamwork fun.

Quest for the most boring chemical element not so boring

Quest for the most boring chemical element not so boring

New Zealanders’ ignorance on the Holocaust should spur us to action

A new poll reveals startling gaps in our knowledge about the Holocaust. Countering this is urgent and important, writes AUT lecturer Dr Melissa Derby.

Melanoma - What's hair got to do with it?

AUT biomedical engineering PhD student Xiyong Huang has been investigating why children are particularly vulnerable to sun exposure.

48 AUT finalists at 2019 Best Awards

AUT School of Art and Design has 48 finalists at this year’s Best Awards.