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1997’s varied science fare

Ex ovo omnia– “everything is from an egg”-is a concept unlikely to trouble readers of...

Current visitors

Most visitors to northern New Zealand never pass through border controls. They arrive without visas,...

Sky pilotage

The First Nights with a new telescope are exhilarat­ing, as one pokes around the obvious...

Sounds complicated

According to my dictionary, “fiord” (also “fjord”) is a Norwegian word meaning a long, deep,...

One lump or two?

ICE. At one extreme, it is the humble cube which puts the clink in your...

Find of the decade?

On November 9, 1997, three Department of Conservation biologists, Jeremy Carroll, Dave Barker and James...

Grounded! Why do some birds walk?

Flying versus walking. A no-contest, you might think, but many bird species have abandoned the...

A scurvy business

For the want of a few milligrams of vitamin C, millions of seamen and adventurers...

Life on the rock

For the inhabitants of Niue—a knuckle of coral in the emptiness of the South Pacific—existence...

Home delivery

Travels with a Coromandel midwife...

Edge city

Like a runway to the future, Auckland’s northern motorway slices across oxidation ponds to reach...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
Dung beetles
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Issue 198 Mar - Apr 2026

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Two years on Mana Island

Risk and reward

Laughter in the night

Choose your own adventure

A delicious crayfish circle of life

Gull spotting

Treasure hunt

The Observologist: A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific...

Teaching drones to soar like birds

The teenage animal

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