Journalist Amit Katwala tells the thrilling story of the invention of the flawed lie-detecting machine in his new book Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector.

Writer Janet Frame's time at Seacliff Mental Hospital in the 1940s and 50s has provided inspiration for a new operatic work premiering in Christchurch this month.

A groundbreaking "bone bath" technique developed by researchers at the University of Otago now allows researchers to access ancient DNA non-destructively.

Protesters have rallied outside the US Supreme Court following the bombshell leak earlier this week indicating the court is poised to overturn Roe v Wade.

Andy Mycock works with a UK group advocating for lowering the voting age and has been following developments in New Zealand closely.

Jimmy Savile was once celebrated as one of the UK's most beloved television personalities. Following Savile's death in 2011, then-BBC journalist Meirion Jones and his colleague Liz MacKean made a documentary exposing Savile as a serial abuser. But the BBC pulled the documentary before it could air. Allegations against Savile came to light 10 months later on another outlet, leading to a major police investigation. Jones, who features in new Netflix docu-series Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, says Savile was protected, in part, by arcane libel laws that quashed multiple attempts to blow the whistle on him since the 1960s.

Arcane libel laws and the greed of people in power enabled British media personality and sexual offender Jimmy Savile to dodge the legal system for 30-plus years, says journalist Meirion Jones.

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In the Southern Hemisphere, April 30 marks the Pagan festival of Samhain, sometimes known as witches' New Year's Eve. In Wicca, a modern Pagan religion followed by witches, it's the night when the veil between the living and the dead is thinnest. Rowan of Wycksted is a green witch living rurally in the Kaipara who follows traditions handed down through generations.

Jan Kemp burst onto the New Zealand poetry scene in the early 1970s, and became one of the few young women poets of her era to be allowed into male-dominated club of the time.