On page 54, Nic Low writes about a beach settlement at Moeraki. The sea is eating it, graves and taonga and all. Sheep and rabbits are chipping away with sharp hooves and scraping paws. Nic spirals ...

Almost all sponges live in the sea, “and they’re the kind that people know about”, as University of Otago palaeontologist Daphne Lee says. But a team led by her German collaborator Uwe Kaulfuss has ...

On paper, Wellington city’s not looking too flash. But photographer Louis Elorfi Macalister finds life—loud, colourful, and dynamic—on every corner. Shifting political winds can feel the strongest in ...

One morning in the Bay of Islands, Nelson lawyer Sally Gepp lowered herself over the side of a boat into the gin-clear waters of Deep Water Cove. She was snorkelling with her family, hosted by ...

In 2022, an extraordinary set of images surfaced at auction. Taken in Christchurch around a hundred years ago, they show a small group of young gay men—tops off and grinning in sand dunes; reclining ...

I had been eyeing the end of 2025 with trepidation—thousands of subscriptions were set to expire. In the last magazine I asked for help. The message: we still need subscription income to power our ...

In first-year philosophy we chewed over the theory that humans were most interested in watching water, fire, and sky. The idea always irked me. What about a dune of tussock rippling in the wind?

Horse mussels are massive. Given a chance, the shellfish can grow to almost half a metre long. University of Auckland marine scientist Jenny Hillman says that until the 1990s, these huge shellfish ...

On the road before the clean running of an EV makes up for the emissions created during its manufacture, according to scientists at Duke University in the US. The cars get off to a messy start because ...

For years, scientists have been using water samples to trace plants, microbes, animals and fungi via the invisible bits of DNA they leave behind. Recently this eDNA technology has taken to the air, ...

In 2019, scientists asked the public to catch and freeze mosquitoes, then post them to Te Papa. Over three years almost 900 tiny packages turned up. About a third of the insects weren’t mosquitoes at ...

The bone belonged to a songbird, but it didn’t belong to any existing New Zealand songbird, alive or dead, and so Elizabeth Steell was stumped. Steell, a research fellow at the University of Cambridge ...