Feathers fly over dinosaurs
Palaeontologists are “p****d off” that the dinosaurs in the upcoming Jurassic Park film will not have feathers.
Palaeontologists are “p****d off” that the dinosaurs in the upcoming Jurassic Park film will not have feathers.
Tsunami warning sirens that sounded across Auckland in a test-run at the weekend are not favoured by our national emergency agency.
Every time Steve Morris takes his two young daughters to the local beach, signs of tsunami danger surround him.
As one of the world's most tsunami-threatened countries, New Zealand faces the triple menace of distant-source tsunami, regional tsunami and local-source tsunami.
Scientists at the University of Auckland believe they are one step closer to finding life in outer space.
Auckland's universities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new buildings, transforming not only their campuses but the shape of the city they serve.
US President Barack Obama has proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer's, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.
NZ's top climate change scientists have rallied together to slam a visiting sceptic who is touring the country to proclaim global warming as a myth that should be ignored.
The more we learn about the formation and evolution of our solar system, the more we realise it was far from a sedate, gentle process.
New Zealand is moving by 4cm a year, new satellite surveys have revealed, as tectonic forces deform the land surface by stretching, slimming and sliding it southward.
The Universe is 13.82 billion years old, give or take 20 million years. This was established from precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background.
The moon. Our nearest neighbour. The main source of the ocean's tides, and a beacon that drives the lives of animals across the globe.
As they did on the afternoon of March 17, tens of thousands of Aucklanders take to Facebook and Twitter to express their amazement that their seemingly quake-free city has had a rumble.
New Zealand's research and development spend rose to $2.6b last year but remains far below many other OECD countries as a proportion of GDP.
An agri-tech company developing wireless devices to track the health of cows has been awarded a $1 million grant.
Results from international tests which placed our Year 9 students at the bottom of the developed world in mathematics make for depressing reading.
"Have you ever wondered why Asians kids are doing so well in maths and science at schools?" asks George Lim.
Goodbye frosts, hello droughts and bush fires.
Minor surgery could be life-threatening in the future, warn experts in Britain and New Zealand.
We're known for being clean and green, but Kiwis are still eating up at least twice their fair share of the planet when it comes to sustainability.
The belief that nervous shock can cause you to go grey overnight (medically termed canities subita) is one of those tales that could nearly be true.
The Government's chief pharmaceutical officer, Keith Ridge, said although the control mechanism for prescribing antibiotics had been strengthened in hospitals.