The great reckoning

The science of human endurance is fascinating because it is so little understood, so variable,...

Moth magnet

On spring nights, bogong moths migrate to the Australian Alps, travelling distances of more than...

Losing ground

Forest soils take a long time to recover from disturbances such as bushfires or logging....

Insectpocalypse now

The first global review of studies about the decline of insects predicts the planet will...

On the spectrum

Birds fly at high speed through dense forests without crashing into trees or leaves—and this...

Safety in flamboyance

Birds with colourful plumage are better at attracting mates, but also more likely to attract...

Tinder land

On January 29, the Nelson Mail published a prophetic story: the fire risk in the...

Use the force

British artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt turn data into art. One of the pieces...

Inferior monocultures

The more species a subtropical forest has, the better at storing carbon it is. A...

Blindsight solved

Some blind people are able to detect and respond to visual cues that they cannot...

Why don’t birds have teeth?

Birds may have lost their teeth to speed up hatching time, according to a new...

The music of Mars

A violin reprises the ANZAC experience of war....

Roaring lion, hidden gold

By the time Choie Sew Hoy arrived in Dunedin, Otago’s first gold rush was sputtering...

Taking calls

A happy hihi, or stitchbird, has a call that sounds like two marbles clacking together....

Close encounters of the bird kind

Craig McKenzie stalks takahē in Te Anau....

Up

Eliza McCartney is chasing the five-metre mark....

Vanishing into something better

Mary Oliver showed us how to look at what’s around us....

Killer fashion

Women wear pants. Civil unrest ensues....

Ignorance is arrogance

Science denial, like so much brash narcissism, may actually be a cry for help....

Road to recovery

Takahē numbers are rising by 10 per cent a year. The problem now is where...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
Dung beetles
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