Climate change: what the world’s coming to
Subscriber contentBy Ruth Laugesen in Science
Issue 3832 13th Oct 2013
Scientist Jim Salinger has been looking at what it will be like to live on a warmer planet.
Influentials: Shape shifters
By Ruth Laugesen in The Influentials
Issue 3892 19th Sep 2013
A trio of people who helped change the country this year.
Oil and gas exploration: New Zealand's future
Subscriber contentBy Ruth Laugesen in Current Affairs
Issue 3827 11th Sep 2013
Will the deep-sea oil and gas exploration boom herald an economic bonanza or an environmental disaster?
Cancer breakthroughs
Subscriber contentBy Ruth Laugesen in Current Affairs
Issue 3824 20th Aug 2013
An era of better-targeted, more-effective therapies for cancer, exploiting everything from gene technology to revolutionary drugs, is already upon us.
Regaining the love Labour’s lost
Subscriber contentBy Ruth Laugesen in Politics
Issue 3823 11th Aug 2013
It’s no longer plain sailing for National, but can Labour get its act together to win in 2014?
Fear of food
By Ruth Laugesen in Current Affairs
Issue 3816 9th Aug 2013
Anorexia turns normal homes into “madhouses”. Genes are part of the riddle of this terrifying illness, but a new wave of treatment offers fresh hope.
Discovering the lost king's tomb
Subscriber contentBy Ruth Laugesen in Science
Issue 3821 25th Jul 2013
The 500-year-old remains of King Richard III were initially uncovered by a mechanical digger. Ruth Laugesen talks to the woman who excavated the bones, Jo Appleby.
Eat, play, fast
Subscriber contentBy Ruth Laugesen in Books
Issue 3817 27th Jun 2013
It’s shaping up to be the biggest diet fad since Atkins, but does the Fast Diet work and is it safe?
From Xero a hero
By Ruth Laugesen in Business
Issue 3816 20th Jun 2013
He’s the $2 billion man who embodies New Zealand’s new tech dream, but can he deliver on investors’ starry-eyed hopes? Ruth Laugesen talks to Xero’s Rod Drury.
Pump action
1 Comments Subscriber contentBy Ruth Laugesen in Current Affairs
Issue 3814 11th Jun 2013
Want to fight climate change? Hit oil companies where it hurts, in their share price, says activist Bill McKibben.