Scientists claim this simple blood test can help predict your chances of survival in the next five years.

A prominent NZ scientist explains why we should ignore alarmist claims that climate change will soon kill us all.

A Kiwi pop star and a Nasa astronaut have joined a line-up of speakers set to take part in an Antarctic TedX event that will be livestreamed around the world.

New research by Kiwi scientists has revealed how chemotherapy stimulates the release of tiny bubbles from the surface of cancer cells that cause potentially fatal blood clots.

New Zealand is pumping more cash into the world's most ambitious science and IT project, bringing its investment in the gigantic Square Kilometre Array to more than $2 million.

New Zealand's science and innovation system is trailing comparable economies in some key areas, a new report has found.

GeoNet technicians reach new heights of Kiwi ingenuity as they work in the quake zone. .

COMMENT: I had never, for one second, consciously entertained the idea that human extinction was conceivable in the near term.

New Zealand students are performing below the international average when it comes to maths, a new study shows.

New data has revealed a notable drop in the average Kiwi household's greenhouse gas emissions, as production of meat, dairy and electricity becomes more climate-friendly.

Research maps out the Auckland suburbs most in danger if a volcanic explosion occurs.

Geologists discover three large historic quakes on an active southern fault and suspected another big one was due to hit.

Scientists working in North Canterbury have captured incredible images showing the fractures in the landscape wrought by this month's 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake.

COMMENT: The more science advances, the more inclined is the human race to cling to nonsense.

GNS volcano information specialist Brad Scott answers questions on the science behind the eruption which sent water shooting 20- to

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.

COMMENT: Free online calculator will allow couples to prepare emotionally and financially for their chances of conceiving using IVF.

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.

By noon today, scientists had recorded nearly 5000 aftershocks from last Monday's big shake. But what are aftershocks and what can they tell us? Jamie Morton explains.

Three young children have been treated in hospital for potentially-deadly meningococcal disease.

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.