In the middle of the night, nine-year-old Elizabeth Bell sprints through the narrow bush tracks of Maud Island, racing toward the nearest ridgeline. The darkness…
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Starwatch: it’s time to celebrate Matariki
The moon moves into its last quarter phase this week, heralding a new moon on 17 July next week. In New Zealand, this means it…
View More Starwatch: it’s time to celebrate MatarikiCan brains bounce back? Recovering addicts turn to science to map the effects of meth
Every few months, Cohen “Coey” Irwin lies on his back and lets the walls close in. Lights move overhead, scanning over the tattoos covering his…
View More Can brains bounce back? Recovering addicts turn to science to map the effects of methFire in the sky: on the trail of space rocks with New Zealand’s meteorite hunters
It looks like a scene from a crime show as a search party in hi-vis jackets walks in formation, heads down, searching the brush for…
View More Fire in the sky: on the trail of space rocks with New Zealand’s meteorite huntersScientists hope ‘world’s loneliest tree’ will help answer climate questions
It is regarded as the “loneliest tree in the world” but the Sitka spruce on uninhabited Campbell Island has been keeping good company of late…
View More Scientists hope ‘world’s loneliest tree’ will help answer climate questions‘Supersonic ballet’: helicopter briefly catches falling rocket
A space company has briefly managed to catch a falling rocket using a helicopter and a hook in a test described by its chief executive…
View More ‘Supersonic ballet’: helicopter briefly catches falling rocketNew Zealand supreme court blocks seabed mining consent
A New Zealand offshore mining company has lost its supreme court bid to overturn a decision preventing it from mining millions of tonnes of iron-sand…
View More New Zealand supreme court blocks seabed mining consentNew Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse
New Zealand, Iceland, the UK, Tasmania and Ireland are the places best suited to survive a global collapse of society, according to a study. The…
View More New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse‘We need to become the solution’: older New Zealanders join climate change fight
On his early morning bike rides to school, David Yockney would deliberately seek out the crunch and splash of the ice-hardened puddles. It was a…
View More ‘We need to become the solution’: older New Zealanders join climate change fight‘Giant luminous shark’: researchers discover three deep-sea sharks glow in the dark
Scientists studying sharks off New Zealand have discovered that three deep-sea species glow in the dark – including one that is now the largest-known luminous…
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