Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) see the world at night on every orbit - that's 16 times each crew day.

A discovery by scientists could spell fast relief for migraine sufferers.

How did the giraffe get its improbable neck? Genetic analysis finds some clues

Nasa has successfully launched a super pressure balloon from Wanaka Airport to conduct near-space scientific investigations.

After a period of uncharacteristic bubbling and steaming, Mt Ruapehu's Crater Lake is showing signs of cooling down.

The world's poorest people are suffering more extreme heat driven by climate change while wealthier nations, including New Zealand, remain less affected.

Policy-making is an area laden with risks - some of them with tremendous consequences.

An origami robot that can be swallowed in a pill and sent on missions inside the body promises a revolution in internal treatment of the digestive system.

Over the last week downtown Auckland was filled with long black gowns and stiff mortarboards.

COMMENT: Too many experts aren't confident talking to the media and feel that stepping into the public arena on controversial issues is a losing game, writes Peter Griffin.

Some of NZ cleverest minds have been singled out in the KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards. Jamie Morton looks at five of the 12 finalists.

It's been one of the warmest starts to the year that New Zealand has ever experienced, but Kiwis should start pulling out their winter woollies.

The internationally-renowned Kiwi scientist who is this month to receive the prestigious Crafoord Prize has also just been awarded the University of Canterbury's rare honour of Canterbury Distinguished Professor.

Kiwi scientists are investigating whether the next generation of wireless telecommunication - the much-vaunted 5G - could be harmful to us.

The University of Otago has announced plans for a new $50 million, five-storey animal research facility to be built at an undisclosed location.

As recently as two years ago, there were five islands in the Pacific Ocean. Now they're nowhere to be seen. Six more are facing the same fate.

We've already seen cars that can drive and park themselves, but could they become smart enough to tell us if we've left our wallet or phone behind?

3D printers have been used to make guns, cars and bikinis - but Kiwi scientists have just taken the technology a step further.

A proposal that could see RNZ's award-winning science programme 'Our Changing World' axed has drawn worry and protest from the scientific community.

One of NZ's most prominent scientists, and the winner of the Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize, says too many scientists feel constrained in speaking publicly.

Crater Lake on top of active volcano Mount Ruapehu has been bubbling this afternoon as temperatures rise to the hottest on record.

Lessons of the Rena disaster will be passed on to the world with a new training programme on how to deal with wildlife hit by an oil spill.

Labs are renowned for having food-loving personalities and barrel-shaped bodies.

For the first time scientists have observed a slow-motion earthquake unfold deep beneath the sea.

UK law bans labs from growing embryos for longer than 14 days as after two weeks, it is deemed that an individual has started to develop.

The Madagascan Darwin's bark spider gives oral sex to female mates up to 100 times during sex. Its reward? Being eaten afterward.

COMMENT: I learned all our calculations for dealing with climate change could be swept aside by a non-linear event. This could be it.

Humans' use of natural glue dates back to 4000BC.

Star-gazers are enjoying their best view of Mars in a decade.