In 1933, four trampers set off into the Tararua Range. Things quickly fell apart. The search for the group spanned a ...

As of last month, it is illegal to race greyhounds in New Zealand. We document the last big race, and the afterparty, as a ...

Murphy had flair, and word of his showmanship must have got around, because in 1918, he gave a demonstration of his skills to ...

Evolution had agriculture down to an art long before we came along. Now, humans have the gall to declare some animal farmers ...

The other day, I got chatting with an Uber driver who used to be an agriculture consultant. I said something about how ...

Transistors can now be squeezed onto a computer chip the size of a fingernail. To build the record-breaking tech, IBM ...

Every so often there emerges a piece of information that is old news to scientists but completely gobsmacks the rest of the ...

Kōaro are native fish and long-haul swimmers: they migrate deep inland as whitebait, then make the return swim when it’s time ...

When fish populations crash, there’s always a lot of finger-pointing—did we fish too hard? Or are the changes driven by the ...

One big one could indeed knock you over, but lots of tiny waves aren’t going to hurt you.” Gerrard, a biochemist and ...

The flowers are all the outsider sees, Stapleton knows. “All the hard labour is disguised behind vast quantities of beauty.” ...

Kate Evans saw a grand total of two adult scallops while reporting on the iconic shellfish. The once-thriving beds she ...