Preliminary modelling suggests that the earthquake was caused by a rupture of a northeast-striking fault t, but this may be a more complex event.

Microbiologist Steve Pointing has searched for life in the world's most extreme deserts. His findings will help Nasa prove that life once existed on Mars.

The now-named Kaikoura Earthquake triggered 100,000 landslides in Northern Canterbury and southern Marlborough.

Scientists are trawling through data to see how New Zealand has shifted following the latest quake.

International scientists are intrigued at the complexity of the suspected twin quakes that rattled New Zealand overnight.

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.

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.

While post-election US has already been compared to an episode from The Walking Dead, researchers have worked out what a zombie apocalypse would look like.

The countdown has begun in earnest for a Kiwi dad who wants to boldly go where no man has gone before - Mars.

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 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.

Ever had a near-death experience? A Massey University psychologist wants to hear from you.

For the first time, scientists will construct a detailed picture stretching back more than 500 years of how we've affected our most important fisheries species - potentially genetically.

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.