Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses are citizens of no one nation. They are ocean birds, living on the wind and waves, travelling massive distances, passing back and forth over the high seas and the ...

This week’s critter is the mysterious Takitimu gecko that lives in the scree slopes and subalpine forests of Southland’s mountains. Its scientific name, Mokopririrakau cryptozoicus means ‘secretive ...

A biotech start-up with a whimsical name is moving to shake up New Zealand's reliance on cows for milk protein. Auckland-based Daisy Lab is raising seed funds to scale up its work on producing casein ...

Coromandel's Eastern Peninsula community is outraged commercial fishing boats, donning pirate flags, are harvesting scallops in a rāhui zone. They were spotted in the area yesterday, which has been ...

A human clinical trial of a potentially life enhancing gene therapy has started thanks to some very special sheep from Lincoln University. Batten disease is a devastating neurological condition which ...

The fifth planet from the sun - Jupiter - is the closest it's been to earth since 1963. And, Nasa's Dart spacecraft has crashed into an asteroid that was travelling at 22 and a half thousand ...

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 ...

If you're stuck for things to do with the kids during lockdown levels 3 and 4 - here's something for you! Whenua Iti outdoors have come up with some fun, outdoor activities to support learning, ...

Crackle, pop, woof, crunch, click. In the ocean, an undersea orchestra is in full swing. Journalist Kate Evans discovers who’s playing in it and why, and what happens when human noise drowns out this ...

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 ...

Staff from Environment Canterbury are at the Cam River/Ruataniwha in Kaiapoi, after a factory fire sent toxic oil into the water. The blaze that destroyed the Sutton Tools manufacturing plant early ...

Some Countdown supermarkets are ditching plastic bags from the produce department in a sprinkling of stores country-wide. It means shoppers will have to bring their bags, boxes, buckets and baskets ...