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'Ball of fire' in skies over central NZ
Some people posted on social media about seeing the sky light up, while others described the light as being green in colour.
Some people posted on social media about seeing the sky light up, while others described the light as being green in colour.
Scientists have just discovered the oldest documented case of live birth: that by a "terrible-headed lizard" that lived 250 million years ago.
Bumblebees can teach one another how to score "goals" with a tiny ball, displaying a learning ability never before seen in insects, a study has shown.
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An ancient fossil of a giant penguin - discovered near Kawhia in 2006 and estimated to be 28 million years old - has become an official
Penguins are much older than previously thought and their evolution probably dates back to the days of the dinosaurs.
Tristram Clayton interviews Grant Christie, Astronomer at Auckland Observatory, about the discovery of a new solar system just 39 light years from Earth.
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Tisa the giraffe died after complications followed a health check.
Lifeforms which have been living inside crystals for up to 60,000 years have been revived by NASA, raising hopes that alien organisms could be found on other planets.
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A genetically-altered form of salmonella is being created to fight back against tumour cells.
Endurance athletes looking to improve their times might consider swishing with a mouth rinse that contains a little sugar during their next performance.
Woolly mammoths - or, at least, animals with very similar DNA - could be brought back from extinction within two years, say scientists.
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There may be a whole lot more to little old New Zealand than three tiny islands tucked away in the Pacific.
For the first time, scientists can point to evidence that people with ADHD have brain structures that differ from those of people without ADHD.
Our forests and other land areas may be sucking up to 60 per cent more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than previously thought and we can likely thank our native trees for much of it.
Cotton buds made by the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson will no longer have plastic handles to prevent toxic waste reaching waterways and seas.
Mankind is already adapting to the widespread impacts of future climate change - but how did we do it in the past? A Kiwi researcher has helped explain.
New research co-authored by a New Zealand scientist has linked deforestation to the deadly Ebola virus.
Two months into the job, new Science and Innovation Minister Paul Goldsmith talks to science reporter Jamie Morton about the state of the sector.
Whales, toothfish and the confounding puzzle that is Antarctica's sea ice will be targeted in six bold new Kiwi studies to be carried out on the frozen continent and in the Southern Ocean.
Preparing New Zealand's water stores for a warmer climate is a major focus of new research projects just awarded more than $2 million.
Manufacturers and marketers have long stuck by three certain "dimensions" of food - taste, texture and smell. But what if there was a fourth?
NASA is heading back to Wanaka to launch its super balloons which orbit the globe performing scientific monitoring.
Christchurch and Japanese academics are developing new drone technologies that would be able to locate people buried in wreckage following natural disasters.
The shallow, snaking, braided channels of Canterbury's Waimakariri River - and the heavily-developed pastureland around it - have been captured by a NASA satellite.
It might sound like something straight out of the 2006 horror comedy Black Sheep, but woolly mutants are leading our scientists toward intriguing discoveries - and innovative new products.
While many of us may find the sounds of chewing or breathing off-putting, for some they're unbearable - and new research has shown their brains are going into overdrive.