Humans have less than 1000 years to find a new planet or we will face the very real threat of mass extinction, says Stephen Hawking.

What's it like to be part of the team at GNS Science when a big quake hits? Seismologist Dr Helen Anderson shares an insight.

It appears our volcanoes have slept through the Kaikoura quake, with monitoring equipment showing only a few tremors over recent days.

COMMENT: The Marsden Fund for research spends millions of tax dollars on 'the weird stuff' and that's how it should be.

An Alexandra satellite research centre could be operational by mid-next year.

Some people are naturally immune to the symptoms of Alzheimer's even when they have the disease, scientists have found.

Kaikoura's tourism industry fears for the future after this week's quake raised the seabed by at least a metre.

Scientists have deep-dived inside two huge Martian craters they say hold the key to discovering signs of life there.

Associate Professor Sarb Johal of Massey University's School of Psychology shares some tips on how to cope with quake-related stress and anxiety.

Could a glass of beer a day help you live longer? The signs are certainly encouraging!

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.

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.

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 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.