Defying gravity

Cancer cell clusters are blasting off into outer space, in a research effort that aims...

Something is going to die

In 2012, New Zealand Geographic broke the story of a secret meeting of scientists in...

More than you can chew

The toutouwai (North Island robin, Petroica longipes) has eyes bigger than its stomach. Weighing about...

The fairer sex

Museums have a gender equality problem. Wander the halls of any natural history gallery and...

Strolling to an early grave

New Zealand and United States researchers have found a link between slow walking speed at...

Why 10,000 steps?

Did you ever get a new Fitbit? Did you then spend the next few weeks...

Reef doctors

After severe coral bleaching—the stress response of coral to higher sea surface temperatures—parrotfish thrive, a...

Rise of the lake slime

By studying 71 lakes in 33 countries from space, researchers from Stanford University have found...

March of the penguins

Climate change could spell the end for emperor penguins by the year 2100—that’s the somber...

Penguin of the north

On Scotland’s remote St Kilda island in the summer of 1840, a group of fishermen...

Global shapers

When did the Anthropocene, the current geological epoch, actually begin? In research published in Science...

Cross fire

The British medal that inspired the New Zealand Cross....

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

With imagination and dedication, as a Waiheke schoolteacher and his students showed 60 years ago....

Night shift

Talman Madsen fell in love with the stars before photography....

Let there be night

At no other point in human history has the planet been this bright after the...

Castaways

Life is constantly in motion around the world, floating across oceans and colonising new shores,...

Tomb raiders

Poachers are raiding fragile caves to make a quick buck flogging moa bones to the...

Making birds

What would happen if city suburbs as well as offshore islands enjoyed freedom from introduced...

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