Together, Cameron Lacey and Marie Crowe are delivering a New Zealand-first therapy: psilocybin, the hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms.

The city lies in a 90-kilometre-long, 40-kilometre-wide oval-shaped depression known to geologists as the Hamilton Lowland. Within the lowland is the Hamilton Basin—a large alluvial fan, like a rimmed ...

The fossilised fin of an ichthyosaur has given up an ancient secret: it seems the massive marine predators were very, very quiet. In a recent Nature paper, a team led by Swedish scientists describe ...

Imagine a fly landing on a spinning balloon—the balloon will tilt ever-so-slightly, shifting the fly to the outermost curve. Humans have caused a similar tilt, scientists have discovered, by building ...

For over a century, we hammered hāpuku. We hit the huge fish so hard that in five decades of underwater exploring, filmmaker Andrew Penniket had encountered them only once. Oceans photographer Richard ...

Inspired by her dad’s love for diving and a desire to protect the oceans, Kaiya Elmes pursued a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University. And it’s ...

A penguin colony in a small town on the east coast of the South Island is thriving due to the conservation efforts of Ōamaru Penguins (formerly Ōamaru Blue Penguin Colony).

We are in what I would consider a hinge moment and living through a major regime change. The peace-driven global order established after the world wars that has defined geopolitics, trade, economics ...

For a fleeting spell each winter, ponds and dams across Central Otago freeze—and the chase for wild ice begins.

For decades, scientists have been collecting brittle stars, or Ophiuroidea, a relative of the starfish, and storing them in museums and universities. Now, DNA analysis from thousands of these ancient, ...

Every autumn, our family give away something like 60 kilograms of feijoas, bagging the fruit up as it drops and lugging it to the gate. But this year, on February 20, a single male Oriental fruit fly ...

In the northwest Pacific, a crushing 10 kilometres below the surface, a community of shellfish, worms and anemones is quietly thriving. Fuelled by methane and hydrogen sulphide seeping from the ...