Is Marscrete the answer to building on Mars?

How can we build on Mars? A casual chat with a geologist led a University of Canterbury (UC) engineering academic and his team to spend years researching how to build on Mars. It all started with Associate Professor Allan ...

300 BCE mummy shroud fragment in New Zealand finds match in US

A 2,300-year old fragment of linen from the wrap of an Egyptian mummy, which is held in the University of Canterbury's Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, has been matched with a fragment in the United States, at the Getty ...

Fake news and half-truths take a toll on financial markets

Three University of Canterbury (UC) financial economists have shed light on a puzzling relationship between economic policy uncertainty and the Volatility Index (VIX) - fear gauge of the stock market, and how the quality ...

COVID-19 and the unexplored role of neighborhood deprivation

Widely cited on the topic of contact tracing during the nationwide lockdown last year, Associate Professor Malcolm Campbell has collaborated with colleagues from UC's GeoHealth Laboratory, School of Health Sciences, Denmark's ...

Common mineral could be key to tackling climate change

Lead researcher UC Civil Engineering Associate Professor Allan Scott, and his team in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand, have found a new low-carbon method to produce the common mineral, magnesium hydroxide ...

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