MOTAT is striking a balance between the past and the present with a new exhibition called Hautū Aunoa Autopilot.

Roland Ennos says humanity owes a huge debt to the most humble of materials; wood. His book The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History takes us on a sweeping ten-million-year ...

Non-sugar sweeteners like stevia are becoming increasingly common in New Zealand, according to a new study from the University of Auckland. Dr Leanne Young from the University of Auckland School of ...

Ocean Beach used to process lambs, a record of 20 000 in one day, but now it’s gullies and troughs run with seawater, not blood. Home to the New Zealand Abalone company and Manaaki Whitebait it’s ...

Whistles, song, calls, booms, rustling in the undergrowth, hooting at night. How busy the bush of Aotearoa must have been, this land of birds, before human-introduced predators and tree clearance.

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 ...

Two tracks in the Waitākere Ranges in West Auckland are reopening today after being closed to protect the region’s kauri forests. The Ōmanawanui Track and the Puriri Ridge Track have also been ...

A new charitable trust is hoping a collaboration with Corrections will result in a win-win: jobs for soon-to-be-released inmates and improved quality in the regions waterways. The Ko Waitangi Te Awa ...

The key to getting into public events, restaurants and bars under the new traffic light system has arrived. A vaccine certificate for those fully-vaccinated – dubbed “My Vaccine Pass” – will be ...

Dr Nikki Freed and Dr Olin Silander from Massey University are part of the team developing cleverer ways of sequencing the genome of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Kina numbers have exploded as we’ve eaten too many of their predators – like big snapper and crayfish – that usually keep them in check. The urchins munch through kelp and seaweed, leaving bare rock ...

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 ...