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Ingenious: how research transforms our world

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Frequency: 1 episode/34d. Total Eps: 8

In-depth stories featuring researchers from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland transforming our world.

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Inside the new science of obesity

Season 2 · Episode 2

Sunday, October 19, 2025 • Duration 30:15

Genetics, gut bugs, new drugs and surgery – this episode is about how groundbreaking research is changing how we understand and treat one of our most intractable health problems: obesity.

Artificial intelligence: creativity or counterfeit?

Season 2 · Episode 1

Monday, October 6, 2025 • Duration 30:26

As AI tools churn out striking art, the question remains: when the spark comes from prompts and past data, is it creation - or just clever theft?

Ingenious is back for season 2!

Season 2 · Episode 1

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 • Duration 01:08

Ingenious is back for another season exploring groundbreaking research and mind-expanding concepts. We meet the amazing people behind those ideas and explore the impact of their work on the world – and on our lives.

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Is it time to fix democracy?

Season 1 · Episode 5

Sunday, April 27, 2025 • Duration 30:37

The world faces ‘democratic recession’. Today more people live in autocratic regimes than in liberal democracies.

Researchers from the University of Auckland are exploring ways to reshape democracy for the 21st century, re-inventing a 2500-year-old idea from ancient Greece and consensus decision-making hui as practised on marae.

From Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, New Zealand's leading research institution, Ingenious is a podcast exploring how research from New Zealand is transforming the world for the better.

Hosted by experienced podcast and award winning journalist Nikki Mandow, Ingenious tells the stories of innovation, ambition and hope from the University of Auckland's leading researchers.

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Bullets in space

Season 1 · Episode 4

Friday, April 11, 2025 • Duration 24:19

As if space was not dangerous enough, there are an estimated 130 million bits of space junk from 1mm to much larger in orbit, each shooting along at about 8km/sec, the speed of a bullet. Fortunately researchers at Te Pūnaha Ātea - the Space Institute are working to reduce space junk.

Hosted by experienced podcast and award winning journalist Nikki Mandow, Ingenious tells the stories of innovation, ambition and hope from the University of Auckland's leading researchers.

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Let's dance: how moving together can heal a fractured world

Season 1 · Episode 3

Friday, March 28, 2025 • Duration 22:45

In the third episode of Ingenious learn about the researchers and artists applying the power of dance to heal an increasingly fractured world and how the simple act of moving together lights up multiple parts of our brain.

Hosted by experienced podcast and award winning journalist Nikki Mandow, Ingenious tells the stories of innovation, ambition and hope from the University of Auckland's leading researchers.

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Digital twins: Next-gen crash test dummies behind a revolution in healthcare

Season 1 · Episode 2

Thursday, March 13, 2025 • Duration 24:17

In the second episode of Ingenious hear about how in the near future digital versions of ourselves will forecast how our bodies respond to surgery or medication.

From the University of Auckland, New Zealand's leading research institution, Ingenious is a podcast exploring how research from New Zealand is transforming the world for the better.

Hosted by experienced podcast and award winning journalist Nikki Mandow, Ingenious tells the stories of innovation, ambition and hope from the University of Auckland's leading researchers.

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Lactose intolerant? You'd be surprised how many people are

Season 1 · Episode 1

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 • Duration 24:39

Ingenious is a new podcast from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland. In each episode we take a deep dive and talk to researchers about work that is transforming our world for the better.

In this episode, how a 5000-year-old genetic mutation enabled some of us to digest milk with no problem. What does that mean for the rest of us?

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