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Tag: Issue 200 Jul – Aug 2026

Jul - Aug 2026

Solar power
Horses of Huntly
Forget me not
Whaling
Red admirals

Warming seas will make life much harder for pāua, a NIWA study has found. Scientists raised young pāua in seawater of various temperatures and pH levels, then monitored their growth. “Essentially, seawater of the future will be warmer, with lower pH levels,” said Vonda Cummings, pictured, who led the study. “We found that the outer […]...

Viewpoint

Kereru fritter, anyone?

Nothing says spring like the start of the whitebait season this past weekend. But aficionados might pause, fork in midair, if they heard freshwater ecologist Mike Joy’s comments connecting whitebait and another native species that has been in the news in a culinary connection: kereru. Both are threatened, so, from a biodiversity point of view, eating […]...

Books

Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand’s Legendary...

The Moa were perhaps the most unusual family of birds that ever lived. Some boasted legs built like an elephant, others laid eggs the size of rugby balls, and the giant moa was the tallest bird ever to walk the planet. They evolved in isolation over millions of years, roaming the forests of New Zealand, […]...

The Mind

On being right

Cack-handed, cow-pawed, dolly-pawed, ker-handed, left-plug, southpaw, squiffy, these are just some of the names that have been applied to left-handers. They have an air of insult, implying that lefties are somehow inferior, or at least odd. On the other hand, as it were, we right-handers are, well, just right. Our language betrays the distinction in […]...

Space

Scaling the universe down to size

One of the greatest difficulties in astronomy is that of getting a feel for the relative size of celestial bodies and the distances between them. The problem arises because the objects are tiny—minute, even—compared to the distances which separate them. This is true even of such a cosy little corner as our Solar System. For […]...