Halcombe, we have a digital twin

Halcombe, we have a digital twin

3 Aug 2023 | Our stories

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...
Everything is information

Everything is information

3 Jul 2023 | Our stories, Storytelling

3 July 2023 A collaboration between scientist Markus Luczak-Roesch and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. In 1975, a student working in Japan made a mistake. They misunderstood some instructions in Japanese and added 1,000 times more of a...
Building a just research system, together

Building a just research system, together

9 Jun 2023 | Our stories

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...
An egg the size of a fairy sprinkle

An egg the size of a fairy sprinkle

2 Jun 2023 | Our stories, Storytelling

2 June 2023 A collaboration between scientist Chrissie Painting and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Anna Brown. “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...