A front rolling across the country is set to obscure the first lunar eclipse in NZ skies in almost three years.

NASA has just released this amazing image of phytoplankton bloom around the Chatham Islands.

Scientists from New Zealand and the United States plan to map the bottom of Lake Rotomahana in the hope of discovering what happened to the Pink and White Terraces hydrothermal system.

An Otago University molecular biologist has been awarded New Zealand's top science and technology honour, the 2010 Rutherford Medal.

Pounding away on the treadmill at the gym and nibbling on lettuce leaves is not the secret to feeling fab for summer, says nutrition specialist Dr Libby Weaver.

Archaeologists have gained an unexpected benefit from global warming.

Four University of Otago researchers are believed to be the first to isolate and photograph the Rubidium 85 atom.

Up to 11 species of beetle may be introduced to NZ.

Large tracts of silty, low-lying land compounded the effects of the Christchurch earthquake, as whole streets were transformed from firm land to sludge.

Chris de Freitas says risk-management planning can help society in practical and economic ways.

A US law means supplies of the gas - a vital component in MRI scans - are vanishing fast.

A huge undersea volcano has dramatically reduced in size after partly collapsing more than 100 metres toward the ocean floor.

Toys coated in 'liquid glass' to stop bacteria

In scientific terms it is clearly huge. And the impact was no doubt felt in households around the world ... at least those with young children.

A team of American scientists captured a four-mile iceberg breaking away from a glacier in eastern Greenland last year, a process known as 'calving', a force behind the global rising sea levels. Source - YouTube/New York University