The riddle of the Rifleman

The Rifleman set out from Hobart on April 14, 1833, and was never seen again....

Learning to Play

A sea of daisies churns beneath Isla, Naomi and Mira sailing their ship at Mt...

Home at first

Unless something goes horribly wrong, Stewart Islanders aren’t actually born on Stewart Island....

Playing with words

Discovery is at the heart of learning, for adults and children...

Black Tuesday

Showdown in a mining town...

The debt to Rachel

Silent Spring became an anthem that empowered the environmental movement....

Wild Man From the Bush

IN THE 1960s, while Barry Crump’s hard-case yarns of deer-hunting in the Ureweras were taking...

Home improvement

For animals, home is where you have a better-than-even chance of surviving...

Spray tell

Instead of submitting a conventional art portfolio in sixth form, the culmination of Elliot O’Donnell’s...

On thin ice

The extent of sea ice in the Arctic has never been so low...

Paekakariki Escarpment Track

Some of Te Araroa’s routes are less thanideal. The footpath between Paekakariki andPukerua Bay just...

Rainmaking

The Amazon rainforest creates its own rainfall by releasing tiny potassium-salt particles, shedding light on...

Talk like a Turk

Researchers redefine the origin of languages using virus-tracking technology...

Dressed to kill

Warriors of the Kiribati archipelago fashioned amour from fish...

Freezing time

As early as 1793, the Frenchman Nicephore Niepce and his brother Claude imagined a photographic...

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