Science

From Dunedin to Fairbanks, Alaska, is a long way — roughly 12,000km, or one very long Air New Zealand flight featuring a toilet seat clearly designed by a sadist

Last Saturday night, I headed out into my Middlemarch paddock to photograph what I thought would be a modest aurora.

On Monday evening, when twilight softens and the first stars begin to appear, the moon will wander into the constellation Pisces, the Fishes.

We are a territorial species, and wars are usually fought over land.

The equinox slipped past us this week.

I recently wrote about the discovery of a new human species following the recovery of DNA from a fragment of bone from Denisova Cave in Siberia.

Who were in fact, the first humans to reach the Americas, when did they get there and what did they find?

Tourists throng to the Greek theatre at Epidaurus, but very few venture further to the nearby shore, where, standing on a promontory on our first visit to Greece, my brother and I made out an...

The seasons are shifting, and with them so are the skies above Otago.

Early on Monday, September 22, Dunedin will wake to a sunrise that isn’t quite right.

There is evidence that plants and insects interact through sound, researchers at Tel Aviv University say, opening a new frontier in the study of acoustic communication in nature.

There’s something quietly marvellous about stepping outside just after sunset in midwinter.

We are staying in our Greek whānau’s villa on the shore of the Aegean.

I have always wanted to visit Hallstatt, a prehistoric site that his given its name to the early Iron Age in Europe.

Out in the dark, on a frost-bitten Saturday in Middlemarch, I turned my telescope towards Messier 83.

Some things in life just don’t line up the way you’d expect.