4 September 2023 A collaboration between scientist Céline Cattoën-Gilbert and illustrator Jean Donaldson. It’s Sunday 14 August 2022, and I’m sitting in front of my computer. I feel a surge of numbing emotions and prickly memories gushing through me. My eyes scan the...
3 August 2023 On Tuesday 14 April 1970, astronauts on the spacecraft Apollo 13 let Houston know they had a problem. An oxygen tank had exploded, and there was damage to the main engine. With the clock ticking, NASA employed multiple simulators to see what had caused...
1 August 2023 Field work is archaeologist Alex Queenin’s happy place. At the moment, she’s finding that happy place on Ahuahu Great Mercury Island, an island off the west coast of Coromandel. An archaeological investigation has been running on Ahuahu since 2011,...
3 July 2023 A collaboration between scientist Markus Luczak-Roesch and illustrator Jean Donaldson. In 1975, a student working in Japan made a mistake. They misunderstood some instructions in Japanese and added 1,000 times more of a substance to a chemical reaction...
9 June 2023 The global research system is in crisis. One way that we are seeing this unfold is in large-scale planned redundancies at our universities in Aotearoa New Zealand. But the research system isn’t broken, it was built this way. The design of the research...
2 June 2023 A collaboration between scientist Chrissie Painting and illustrator Jean Donaldson. “Found some!” I let out a sigh of relief and turn towards my colleague’s voice coming somewhere from among a tangle of logs and vines. Above me a kākā whistles, but this...
