John Lewis

Regular communication via satellite texts has resumed after Russian adventurer and rower Fedor Konyukhov’s boat was damaged by violent storms with massive and destructive waves in the Southern Ocean.

While 2025 got off to a cool start, leaving many in Dunedin to ponder whether we have just had the worst summer in living memory, Niwa data shows the city was warmer, sunnier and drier than average...

Meteorological autumn has officially arrived, and already the leaves are starting to turn.

It seems so unlikely that bumping into a complete stranger in the middle of Mitre 10’s carpark would one day lead to major research funding being given to study a severe and debilitating disease.

"Hangxiety" — it is the anxious or worried feeling people get the day after a night out drinking.

After a "bummer summer", things are about to heat up around Otago and Southland over the next four days, as the mercury rises to 30°C or more.

For more than 40 years, scientists have puzzled over how our sensory systems can detect both the faintest whispers and the loudest explosions, without being overwhelmed.