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Plants are social beings. When leaves from different plants touch each other, their roots send...

Galaxy smash

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A third place

Our towns and cities are lacking something important, and I was reminded of this during...

Name of the whale

The oldest ‘true’ baleen whale fossil ever found, at more than 27.5 million years old,...

The krill effect

A one-centimetre-long shrimp can’t create an ocean current when it swims, but en masse, these...

How the 1918 flu spread

One hundred years ago, an influenza pandemic tore across the world, infecting 500 million people,...

Save or restore

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Second-rate grains

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Shining a light on Zika

An old tool that has been used for decades to determine which chemicals are in...

Ribbon halfbeak

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The inheritance

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Hooked

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Waingaro Forks Hut

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A visit to the past

Retracing lives of long ago....

Trophy ship

The only vessel ever taken as a war prize by New Zealand....

Pattern recognition

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Good grief

What we can learn from albatrosses....

Tiny houses

The idea of minimal living, an international fad, has fallen on fertile soil in New...

The lie of the land

In August 1849, Sarah and Isaac Cripps and their three children boarded the Fancy, bound...

The first test

If we’re serious about Predator Free 2050—about ridding New Zealand of every last rat, stoat...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
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