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An Island to Oneself: Six Years Alone on a Desert Island

Tom Neale, HarperCollins, $45...

Boo!

The mystery of the Brooklyn Dodger: a ghost, or perhaps just a boy....

The selfless gene

If it’s a dog-eat-dog world, and if nature is red in tooth and claw, why...

Perception & reality

The other morning I set a deeply unimpressive personal record. The drive to work, which...

Home and away

Sixteen years ago, Richard Robinson met a Polish woman, Ania Matuszczak, diving at the Poor...

Parrot of the people

Craig Mckenzie was surprised that New Zealand Geographic didn’t pick this photograph as part of...

Limbo

At Lake Ellesmere/Te Waihora, Joe Harrison documents an era of change and uncertainty....

A sense of sham

From retirement, David Bimler has embarked on a second career: exposing fraudulent research....

Not a fan

Our summers are getting hotter, but electric fans are not always the answer—even if they...

Great whites see the light

Laura Ryan was studying the visual systems of fish when a spate of shark attacks...

Fly like a bird

To design sleeker, sneakier aircraft, researchers are mimicking the physics of our feathered friends. Pigeonbot...

Say what?

Most journalists I know feed their interview recordings to an AI called Otter, then go...

The great recycling delusion

At best, our recycling system is deeply inefficient. Some argue it’s also a deliberate deception—an...

Here lies Endurance

Preserved beneath three kilometres of frigid saltwater and up to five metres of floating sea...

Homecoming

Eighty years ago, during World War II, hundreds of Polish children found safe harbour in...

The Keeper

What compelled a South Auckland dairy farmer to amass New Zealand’s most significant collection of...

The war on hawks

Get out of the city this summer and you’re bound to glimpse a kāhu. The...

The possibility of mosses

They’ve been here 300 million years. They grow on rock, or in deserts, or underwater,...

At last, a chance to examine the world’s rarest whale

Last week, scientists and kaitiaki set to work to necropsy the rarest whale ever discovered—a...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

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