For a fleeting spell each winter, ponds and dams across Central Otago freeze—and the chase for wild ice begins.

The city lies in a 90-kilometre-long, 40-kilometre-wide oval-shaped depression known to geologists as the Hamilton Lowland. Within the lowland is the Hamilton Basin—a large alluvial fan, like a rimmed ...

For over a century, we hammered hāpuku. We hit the huge fish so hard that in five decades of underwater exploring, filmmaker Andrew Penniket had encountered them only once. Oceans photographer Richard ...

Philip Garnock-Jones has spent more than a decade photographing our native flowers as they’ve never been shown before: in luscious, three-dimensional detail.

It all flows, Togiaso says, from the principle that “we play for each other. You play for your teammate, your brother next to you.” Most of the team are Pasifika and Māori; Togiaso is Samoan.

For the next century, the Wardian case facilitated the transfer of live plants around the world. But the case was not simply a practical solution to a problem, writes cultural critic Gregory O’Brien ...

Some, like clownfish, swap when there’s a gap in the social order. Others switch when they get to a certain size, when they’re looking for a mate, when the weather is hot, when the environment is ...

Lots of spiders are very good at one or two things. Stalking, maybe. Setting traps. Biting. But Steatoda nobilis, the invasive spider now spreading in New Zealand, has an arsenal of tactics—including ...

In the northwest Pacific, a crushing 10 kilometres below the surface, a community of shellfish, worms and anemones is quietly thriving. Fuelled by methane and hydrogen sulphide seeping from the ...

Together, Cameron Lacey and Marie Crowe are delivering a New Zealand-first therapy: psilocybin, the hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms.

We are in what I would consider a hinge moment and living through a major regime change. The peace-driven global order established after the world wars that has defined geopolitics, trade, economics ...

The fossilised fin of an ichthyosaur has given up an ancient secret: it seems the massive marine predators were very, very quiet. In a recent Nature paper, a team led by Swedish scientists describe ...