Cutting-edge technology has just answered a few long-standing questions about takahē: How did they get here? What happened to them after they arrived? And it raises a new question: Where should they ...

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“Murray Ball used black to get to sleep at night. He imagined turning his back on his class of raucous nine-year-olds and descending into the void of the blackboard. The thought helped him relax a ...

He has also driven contributors and production staff alike to unparalleled heights of exasperation with his sharp editorial blade (it’s genetic; his great-grandfather was the butcher in Charleston on ...

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 ...

Our next guest is a bird researcher, who looks into what happens when vulnerable populations get very small. How does she do that? Well, she studies their sperm. Dr Helen Taylor from the University 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

World’s largest parrot found in Central Otago – and it’s twice the size of a Kākāpō. Evidence of the world’s largest parrot has been uncovered in Central Otago – and it’s double the size of the ...

Thirty years ago botanist Dr Hugh Wilson had a novel idea for trying to make hilly farmland on Canterbury’s Banks Peninsula and turn it back into native forest. It was 1987, and the suggestion that ...

David Leung finds ways to make plants solve environmental issues. David Leung is a biotechnology researcher at the University of Canterbury. He’s looking for “technology to help plants, to use plants ...