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Political science

There’s a dead end we run into again and again while documenting natural science in...

Outward bound

Venture down some of New Zealand’s roads less travelled....

Let it go

How soprano Madeleine Pierard found her voice....

Calling a truce on mangroves

It’s long been assumed that more mangroves means more mud, says Karin Bryan, a University...

My love language? Empirical evidence

In 1992, a US Baptist pastor called Gary Chapman published a self-help book asserting that...

Crushing it

Sixteen years ago, teenage fossil-fossicker Karl Raubenheimer was scouring a beach at Waitoetoe near his...

Tuatara: weird all the way through

Tuatara are even stranger than we thought. The “living fossils”, the only surviving members of...

Soft power

Grass seeds. The waves that the tide etches in sand. Our own muscle cells. The...

Uplift

For once, fairy terns are having a good year. Photographer Richard Robinson revisits the birds...

Tiny pretty things

This is one of hundreds of photographs Richard Robinson took during a highly technical microscopy...

Message in a bottle

This month, two dozen yachts depart the Bay of Islands to begin one of the...

Tomb with a view

Until recently, scientists didn’t think our amber held any insects. Now, they’ve found more than...

The Searcher

Wayne Keen is a man impelled. Even after official searches wind up he’ll go back...

Cause of death

Elspeth Kerr was a popular nurse. She was also fond of poison....

On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter, and a mother

Ineke Meredith, HarperCollins, $39.99...

Ans Westra: A Life in Photography

Paul Moon, Massey University Press, $49.99...

Rainbow world

Nature is queer in tooth and claw....

Pitching in

Cub reporter Harriet Morris got her start as a toddler, assisting her dad, writer Bill...

Glamour shots

As a kid, Richard Robinson was, well, a kid—he threw the odd stone at a...

Worlds Apart

Your grandad builds a hut in the bush. But he builds it on public land....

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
Dung beetles
Centro
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Issue 198 Mar - Apr 2026

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Two years on Mana Island

Risk and reward

Laughter in the night

Choose your own adventure

A delicious crayfish circle of life

Gull spotting

Treasure hunt

The Observologist: A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific...

Teaching drones to soar like birds

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