Weather: Cold snap hits New Zealand with strong southerlies and below-average temperatures
Wellington is forecast to reach a high of just 12C today, down from 20C yesterday, with exposed areas…
Webb Reveals Hidden Layers of Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere
For the first time, astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’ ionosphere, uncovering unexpected temperature peaks, weakened…
Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups You’ve Been Slurping
According to a wealth of recent scientific literature, microplastics, tiny pieces of debris anywhere from one micrometer to…
Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups You’ve Been Slurping
According to a wealth of recent scientific literature, microplastics, tiny pieces of debris anywhere from one micrometer to…
Bream Bay jellyfish stings: Swimmers hit by painful rash at Ruakākā
The unwelcome invaders cause significant allergic reactions in some people. They sting without swimmers feeling it, their impacts…
Hawke’s Bay heat: Hastings’ temperature forecast for Sunday soars to 38C
As the predicted situation started to materialise today, MetService meteorologist Mmathapelo Makgabutlane said the forecast peak temperature had…
January temperature records could fall as hot spell forecast
They were put out the day before the heat was due to strike – and there would likely…
Australian heatwave set to cook Hawke’s Bay
The hottest temperature in New Zealand in January last year was 32.4C in Bay of Plenty town Kawerau,…
Climate change is shrinking children’s height – and humidity is making things worse
Published on 22/12/2025 – 14:15 GMT+1 Millions of children risk experiencing stunted growth if heat-trapping emissions continue to…
Astronomers Create 3D Temperature Map of Hot-Jupiter WASP-18b
The new map of WASP-18b, a hot-Jupiter exoplanet located approximately 325 light-years from Earth, reveals an atmosphere with…
Unexpected Mixture of Hydrogen Cyanide and Hydrocarbons May Exist on Saturn’s Moon Titan
Titan offers great motivation for the detailed study of organic chemistry in unconventional conditions. Nonpolar hydrocarbons such as…
Baker’s Yeast Can Survive Mars-like Stress Conditions, New Study Shows
Exploring the possibility of the survival of life under extraterrestrial conditions is an important goal of astrobiology. In…