Kauri are a tuakana species in Aotearoa – they are like the older sibling, towering above the ngahere (forests), giving protection for the younger organisms. Kauri...

Iwi and marine biologists are curious to know whether the New Zealand native sea cucumber can become a valuable export product while also reducing the environmental...

Rongoā is the Māori term for medicines produced from native flora and fauna. Rongoā are still used extensively today, and resources are carefully collected in a...

The kiwi is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s national icons. It is known as te manu huna a Tāne – the hidden bird of Tāne. Kiwi...

The haukāinga (local residents) of the Rotorua area – Te Arawa, Tūhourangi and Ngāti Wāhiao – have lived in this highly active geothermal region for generations....

Our native forests – ngahere – have complex ecosystems. Within the wider ecosystems are smaller ecosystems, such as the one formed around honeydew. Honeydew is a...

Shellfish numbers have been plentiful for centuries and important kai for Northland Māori, but industrial harvesting and canning had a devastating effect on toheroa numbers. I...

Māori ancestors possessed a wealth of astronomical knowledge that they referred to as tātai arorangi. The knowledge was important for many aspects of daily life, from...

New Zealand is a nation of potato lovers. We love our spuds, and for many of us, they are a key source of vitamins, minerals and...

In October 2011, the Greek container ship MV Rena ran aground on Ōtāiti, also known as the Astrolabe Reef, off the coast of Tauranga. The oil...

For Māori, taonga are precious as the living embodiment of tūpuna or ancestors, and they need to be handled respectfully. This means that not only are...

Māori have many traditional uses for harakeke (Phormium tenax) such as the making of traps and fishing nets and the weaving of whāriki (mats) and kete...

Rauhina Scott-Fyfe (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha) is the Māori Archivist at Uare Taoka o Hākena Hocken Collections held at the University of Otago. Rauhina is...

Infectious diseases have been a feature of life and death throughout history. Humans have been treating infections for millennia, including use of materials with antimicrobial properties...

Microplastics are very small plastic particles generally less than 5 mm in size. Some people also distinguish microplastics from even smaller plastics, termed nanoplastics, that are...

Position: Technical Director, Owner, Founder, Nanolayr (previously Revolution Fibres) Field: Nanotechnology, nanomaterials Key skills, attitudes and values for innovation Iain thinks innovators share these important attitudes:...

The New Zealand pea crab (Nepinnotheres novaezelandiae) is a parasite that spends its adult life within a mussel shell. However, the larval stages of its life...

The male pea crab leaves the safety of his green-lipped mussel host when it’s time to mate. He’s looking for a mussel that contains a female...

The iconic Sydney Opera House is to be digitally recreated for future generations by a team of 3D scanning and visualisation experts from Scotland. The virtual...

SI is built on seven fundamental standards called base units. All other SI units are derived by multiplying, dividing or powering the base units in various...

The Leigh Marine Laboratory is located 100 km north of Auckland on the edge of the Cape Rodney-Ōkakari Point Marine Reserve (commonly known as the Goat...

Even though the rider accounts for 70% of the aerodynamic drag in cycling, any savings in drag for the bike are important. There is a huge...

This provides a timeline of events related to ultraviolet radiation from both a living world and a physical world perspective. 900 BC–500 AD – Ancient Greek...

Ultrasound is a medical imaging technique that uses high frequency sound waves and their echoes. The sound waves are above human hearing, and the echoes from...