For six years New Zealand Geographic has been working to find a better wrap to protect our magazines from water damage when mailed to subscribers. We post more than 50,000 copies a year, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

300 volunteers have turned up to help the Ōkārito Kayaks gorsebusters project. Baz Hughes, who runs the business, put the call out in January for people to have a free six day kayaking adventure in ...

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 ...

Kelly Tarlton’s Aquarium is celebrating the arrival of a fever of newborn eagle ray pups – born to mothers who have not been near a male of their species in three years. The baby Whairepo rays – a ...

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 ...

Meteorite hunters found Aotearoa’s 10th chunk of space rock just south of Lake Tekapo on Thursday. The fireball was seen entering Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 50 to 60 kilometres per second on the ...

Jo Morgan is a mountaineer, avid motorcyclist, adventurer, trader, philanthropist, grandmother, and now author. She’s written a memoir about her adventure-filled and unconventional life, which begins ...