COMMENT: Research has uncovered decades-long, large-scale fish dumping, now let's work together on correcting this.

Scientists are travelling back more than 60 million years in history to drill deep under the ocean floor in search of clues about the event that wiped out the dinosaurs, and nearly extinguished life on earth. Source: Smithsonian Channel

A major environmental group wants to see more money for conservation funding amid Thursday's Budget announcements.

Scientists have just described one of the most peculiar dinosaurs ever unearthed, all thanks to a chance fossil discovery in the US a decade ago.

COMMENT: The New Zealand wine industry is big business with an estimated annual turnover of $2 billion, $1.42 billion of which comes from export earnings.

COMMENT: Have you ever read a headline claiming some scientific finding that doesn't sound quite right?

A trial has been approved, would you agree to it?

Male nursery web spiders best not show up at a lady's house empty-handed. Because they could get eaten alive for it.

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

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.

Tagging sharks, walking on volcanoes - science is a lot more than being stuck in a lab. Jamie Morton finds out how some researchers spend their days.

When you sit around imagining life aboard the ISS one thing you probably don't want to think about is a space junk slamming into your vessel.

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?

A prominent professor says New Zealand needs a commission for science as many scientists are being gagged.

The Aids Foundation is pushing for a pill to be approved here for use in HIV prevention after a similar move was made across the Tasman.

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.