Love rats

The microbe with Jedi-like powers of mind control....

Shocky horror picture show

The first projected images were horrific....

She’ll be right

Now the selection has run its course, the focus of the media has returned to...

Run for your life

In the 1960s, New Zealander Arthur Lydiard introduced the concept of jogging to the world...

Black Tide – the Rena accident and its implications

New Zealanders have become accustomed to sea freight slipping silently in and out of the...

Farmers’ markets

Fifty thousand New Zealanders shop at farmers’ markets every week, with local economies and communities...

Night moves: The world of moths

Moths can be regarded as a domestic inconvenience. They spin in awkward orbits about lamps,...

A grey zone in white water

Laurence Fearnley on fear, motivation and freedom...

Field work

To photograph the story on farmers’ markets which features in this issue, photographer Jason Hosking...

The last whaler

The nation finds a new use for Leviathan...

Shapeshifters

Metamorphosis gave the insects a leg-up to global supremacy. Now, research hints that it may...

State of grace

Sir Geoffrey Palmer on the corridors of power....

The Heat of Battle

New Zealand became a world-leading authority on tropical meteorology as a legacy of the aerial...

Te Paki Coastal Track

The first in a series of guides to the recently opened Te Araroa trail, selected...

Crash course

Bird brains not so dull after all....

Native tongues

Like the biblical tower of Babel, citizens of Vanuatu inhabit a world of strange tongues....

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Issue 200

Jul - Aug 2026

Solar power
Horses of Huntly
Forget me not
Whaling
Red admirals

Issue 200 Jul - Aug 2026

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