Seismologist Dr Ristau answers questions
GNS Science seismologist Dr John Ristau has answered your earthquake questions in a live chat.
GNS Science seismologist Dr John Ristau has answered your earthquake questions in a live chat.
Even the Large Hadron Collider - 18,000km away in Switzerland - reported "feeling" the earthquake.
Join Tristram Clayton as he talks to GNS Science seismologist John Ristau on the South Island earthquake.
Visit any major urban centre today and you are likely to be confronted with hundreds of people walking with their heads down as they fiddle with phones.
Kiwi experts are on the front lines fighting the "antibiotic apocalypse".
COMMENT: How social media is shaping political debate as the public square migrates online.
In 1970s, some of NZ's leading thinkers were correctly predicting a future of smartphones, broadband and HDTVs. Did we stop trying to gaze beyond horizon?
Australasia's first Exponential Technology summit organiser Kaila Colbin shares five things she expects to see in the not-too-distant future.
COMMENT: Scientists have taken phytoremediation one step further by combining it with nanobionics - the process of modifying biology with engineering.
On Monday the largest supermoon in almost 70 years will light up the night sky ... but Tuesday night might bring the most spectacular New Zealand moonrise.
A world-famous thinker says New Zealand could be the "Athens of the modern world".
Efforts to tackle a major eye problem that can lead to blindness could be boosted by a world-first Kiwi study into newly discovered and potentially game-changing adult stem cells.
Do you have superior face recognition skills? If so, you might be able to help police solve crimes.
A National Geographic documentary series following Kiwi scientists in Antarctica premiered at Scott Base and in Christchurch this evening.
Source: YouTube: TedEd. The bizarre and often grotesque way some parasites brainwash their victims — then often force them to kill themselves — will be explored in a new $830,000 Kiwi study.
A clever tracking innovation dubbed DroneCounts, combining the use of drones with radio tags and pioneered by a pair of Kiwis, has scooped a major conservation award. The prototype Duckatron is used to locate a pateke in Habitat Te Henga, in the Waitakere Ranges
A clever tracking innovation, combining the use of drones with radio tags and dubbed DroneCounts, has scooped a major conservation award.
Horror parasites brainwash their victims, driving them to kill themselves. And they're in your backyard.
Scientists are to harness the power of ultra-fast lasers to finally reveal how an intriguing and complex UV filter within our bodies protect us from the sun.
COMMENT: Having a song stuck in one's head, known as an earworm, is an experience that over 90% of us have on a regular basis.
The hottest year on record globally in 2015 could be an average year by 2025 and beyond if carbon emissions continue to rise at the same rate, new research has found.
Two-headed sharks sound like a monster ripped straight out of a B-list horror movie, but scientists are increasingly finding more of them worldwide.
COMMENT: DiCaprio's documentary has been viewed more than six million times and will raise public consciousness.
Scientists say pudgy older fathers live longer, are more attractive to women and are better at passing on their genes.
Eating plenty of tomatoes could stave off wrinkles - and even skin cancer, say scientists.
Scientists will reconstruct more than 20,000 years of NZ's ecological history to better understand how our species will respond to climate change.
Ultra-sensitive fibre-optic sensors extending nearly a kilometre below the Southern Alps will transform what we know about one of the biggest earthquake threats facing New Zealand.
A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using Facebook is associated with living longer - when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world social ties.
Vegetarians have often argued that their diet is more environmentally friendly, but a carbon footprint study reveals how friendly our food really is.
This month marks a decade since icebergs thrust Otago into the world spotlight, ODT illustrations editor Stephen Jaquiery recalls how it played out.