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Rotorua rumbles: 'The village is erupting'
Residents tell of fear after eight water eruptions of up to 30m on the lake this morning - the first geothermal activity in the area for about 15 years.
Residents tell of fear after eight water eruptions of up to 30m on the lake this morning - the first geothermal activity in the area for about 15 years.
Android users are more honest than iPhone users, researchers have found, in a study revealing what our choice of smartphones say about us.
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Scientists say it's not beyond the realms of possibility that New Zealand could have a sophisticated earthquake early warning (EEW) system - alerting people seconds before a big disaster hits.
Thanks to this research, there has never been a better excuse to eat ice cream for breakfast.
Tash Joyce had a very special delivery waiting in her post box.
A renowned Auckland brain scientist has been recognised with New Zealand's highest honour for research - the Rutherford Medal.
These graphics show how Marlborough's faults were set off one by one in the 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake.
A stream of bubbles is rising out of the sea around the Kaikoura peninsula as newly formed cracks in the seabed release gases into the water.
Scientists at the Scion Research Institute in Rotorua have developed a way to use sawdust to produce biofuel for the transportation sector. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
A pumice raft spotted by a Royal New Zealand Air Force crew has pointed to a possible major undersea eruption somewhere in the Tonga-Kermadec volcanic arc.
Scientists at the Scion Research Institute in Rotorua have developed a way to use sawdust to produce biofuel for the transportation sector. Made with funding from NZ On Air
No place on Earth is safe from the force of Mother Nature but countries on the "Ring of Fire" are certainly most vulnerable.
Parts of New Zealand are sinking at faster rates than others and will be subjected to higher levels of future sea level rise, a scientist says.
Mark Sagar's Baby X technology spin-out has gained US$7.5 million in venture capital funding.
Scientists have revealed astonishing new insights into how the 7.8-magnitude quake affected New Zealand's seabed.
Victoria University earthquake scientist Dr John Townend says Kiwis shouldn't draw any connections between the Japan quake and last Monday's 7.8 Kaikoura quake.
Acting Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has been accused of vilifying a Geonet scientist who spoke out about the need for a better tsunami warning system in New Zealand.
It's impossible. But science appears to say it's happening. A prototype space engine seems to be producing energy from nothing.
A new video of the Kekerengu Fault shows the shocking damage caused by last week's 7.8-magnitude earthquake on the landscape.
The new ISS crew members are NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russia's Oleg Novitskiy and France's Thomas Pesquet.
Canterbury University marine ecologist Dr Sharyn Goldstien has been on the ground investigating what the freshly-raised coast at Kaikoura has meant for ocean ecosystems.
Monday's 7.8 quake was bafflingly complex in some ways, but simple in others. Science reporter Jamie Morton delved into the data to look at what we know so far.
Residents are being warned aftershocks connected to the Kaikoura earthquake will continue for months to years.
Drops of the controversial pest-control poison 1080 have killed at least two dozen endangered kea in recent years.
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This is the final resting place of 'JS', the 14-year-old British girl who fought for the right to be frozen after her death.
The acting Civil Defence Minister has blasted comments made by the head of Geonet - saying he feels blindsided.
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