Finding faults

Just after midnight on November 14, 2016, more than 24 fault lines around Kaikōura ruptured...

A long-running myth

Did our ancestors really chase animals until they collapsed from fatigue?...

It’s complicated

If you take away one thing from this issue’s story on fisheries, it’s that most...

Have you tried stripes?

Painting cows with black and white stripes reduces fly bites by 50 per cent, according...

Machine medicine is catching up

Artificial intelligence can spot diseases with about the same accuracy as human professionals, according to...

Quite shocking

Genetic reanalysis in the Amazon has revealed that the electric eel is, in fact, three...

Our newest weapon is a sponge

A sea sponge may one day save millions of lives, according to a study published...

Gender reveal

Embryonic turtles can choose what they’ll be when they grow up: male or female. In...

Thin-skinned pāua

Warming seas will make life much harder for pāua, a NIWA study has found. Scientists...

The case of the missing sharks

Normally, more than 200 sightings of great white sharks are recorded every year in False...

Galactic snack

Our next-door neighbour is a cannibal. Andromeda, the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way,...

Inundation could happen again

Plotting sea-level fluctuations around Zealandia three million years ago has sounded a warning for the...

Quantum theory passes zero-gravity test

Scientists are finally able to confirm that quantum theory holds up even in the absence...

Was that the big one?

Residents and emergency services could better handle earthquakes if they knew whether the worst was...

Into the vortex

Something out of the ordinary has been unfolding above the South Pole....

The 230-year-old fish

When this orange roughy hatched, European navigators were still colouring in their map of the...

Love’s labours

Adventures of an amateur fossil hunter....

Catch of the year

This issue’s feature on fishing was 12 months in the making....

The price of fish

Are there plenty more fish in the sea? Reports of falling hoki stocks off the...

End of the iron age

As the sun sets on New Zealand’s manufacturing industries, a photographer visits a foundry and...

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