All his life, Jay Kuethe has been a collector. When he was growing up in 1990s Britain, his immigrant Dutch parents gave him ...

She was sexually abused herself; she broke her leg and was left screaming on the ground for three hours, ignored; she started to have nightmares that she was being stabbed. She worked exhausting hours ...

Photographer Erica Sinclair shot half of this magazine, occasionally with her children in tow—her daughter Maiea was happy to settle in with a book while Mum documented a remarkable community garden ...

To be fair, this trip landed right in the middle of the pre-Christmas flurry, and she’d just managed to bust her phone in a harried slammed-door mishap. Plus there was surfing to be done, and ...

Royal spoonbills are thriving in New Zealand, with birdwatchers spotting their extravagant head feathers in more and more estuaries and lagoons. The population is now growing at a rate of 10 per cent ...

The harlequin gecko does many things that seem high risk. It stays stock still whenever it’s cold. It lives in extreme slow ...

It was all very modern and amusing, but a lot could hinge on Terman tests. They were intended to predict whether a student, ...

Dogs wag their tails in all sorts of ways—side to side, up and down, round and round—as well as up high or down low. They use them to communicate, says Leonetti, wagging during “aggressive ...

For all their showiness, tree ferns are extraordinary survivors. They hold their secrets close—but now, scientists are ...

Plantation forests take up about seven per cent of New Zealand’s land area, mostly in the North Island. Now, researchers have mapped these forests using a combination of airborne laser scanning and ...

Una Cruickshank, Te Herenga Waka University Press, $35 ...

These are the questions that Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith raise and answer in Pātaka Kai (which means “pantry”). The term ...