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Willows can stop a river flooding a farm. Or they can turn a river dark and mean. Trying to control them, we’re realising, has always been a fool’s game. But we can’t stop now.

In New Zealand’s national parks and remote areas, conservation managers cull feral cats to save many bird, reptile and ...

ChatGPT can certainly spit out an essay in time for a deadline—but, reassuringly for those of us who write for a living, the ...

Need a mobile home? An incubation chamber? Dinner? Hundreds of species have hit on an elegant solution: find a nice juicy critter—and turn it into a zombie.

A new interactive tool illuminates the fraught world of the whale, overlaying tracking data for seven species with hazards such as noise and plastic pollution, ocean traffic and offshore construction.

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 ...

Lyttelton was hit harder than most by the Christchurch earthquakes - particularly the Lyttelton Museum. But now it's back - triumphantly, we may say! - with a little help from its friends, past 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 ...

New Zealand start-up, Daisy Lab, is making milk proteins from microbes through precision fermentation, a technology which has the potential to be a major disruptor of NZ's multi-billion dollar dairy ...

New findings from a 35-year research project on Generation X shows hallmarks in their life experiences, including no evidence for a period of mid-life crisis, a ‘delayed adulthood’ and increasing ...

They may have lived millions and millions of years ago, but dinosaurs have a lot to teach us about modern life according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara. There are lessons about humility and ...