Ever since getting stuck in a narrow cave “squeeze” when he was 16, Neil Silverwood has trembled at the thought of tight spaces. And yet he keeps going back into some of New Zealand’s deepest and most ...

Many women, says McConnochie, are worried about slowing others down or being left behind on group trips. Alone, those ...

A species of native fungi has been photographed glowing with bioluminescence – a fact that has previously eluded mycologists. A Mycena roseoflava was recently found during the annual “fungal foray” on ...

More than 50,000 people gathered at Waitangi on February 6, 2024—one of the largest attendances on record. What brought them? Driving south on State Highway 1 in the middle of the night, the crescent ...

Emperor penguins spend part of the year huddled together on the ice, keeping eggs and then chicks warm. But where do they go once breeding season is over? This week we’re starting a mini rerun of ...

Marlborough’s wine industry is booming, but there’s no industrial-sized solution to deal with its waste. Sewage fungus is not what the wine industry wants people to think of when they sip a sauvignon ...

Some Māori and Pacific people say they have been shut out of climate change activism. They warn if their voices are not included it risks perpetuating the massive inequalities in this country. Kera ...

An aquifer in coastal Taranaki cannot be used to boost water supplies at Okato because it has been contaminated with an agricultural chemical and is considered a risk to human health. Testing of a ...

Kaitiaki of a world-reknowned wetland at the bottom of the North Island are excited about the return of a critically endangered bird, the matuku-hurepō or Australasian Bittern. Researchers listening ...

Auckland-based company Buckley Systems has developed and manufactured a machine which could help treat the most difficult cancers. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) delivers targeted radiation to ...

Can you tell the difference between a korimako/bellbird and a tūī, or a morepork and a kiwi? Birdsong expert of 39 years Paul Cuming shares tips on how to tell one bird from another. He says birds ...

While Nanogirl and her nanobot C.L.A.I.R are off on more great science adventures, we’ve been listening to other grea science podcasts for kids and found Dan and the Fun Kids Science Weekly radio show ...