Animal-loving science students design network to bring pets and their owners together.

Intensive checking for influenza at two hospitals has shown that the number of infected patients is around one-third greater than was previously thought.

Rakon will cut up to 60 New Zealand jobs as it shifts more manufacturing to China and India in a bid to cut costs and widen profit margins.

Being confronted with maths can cause some people physical pain, researchers have found.

NZ scientists say view of androids as closer to humans than objects will help as they become part of daily life.

New Zealand researchers hope to greatly improve the efficiency of making babies in the laboratory by developing an accurate egg test.

A "cloaking device" that makes things invisible, the effect of a depleting ozone layer on the prevailing wind and just how birds tell the time before migrating.

The pressure to cut greenhouse gas emissions will grow as the temperature rises, writes Gwynne Dyer, and the desire for "energy independence" will only get stronger as oil prices rise.

A senior government scientist was fired for allegedly allowing genetically modified ryegrass plants to flower and potentially release pollen without proper protection.

New Zealand scientists are hoping to produce a baby formula good enough to match the nutritional quality of breast milk.

Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has been reduced to half of what it was in the 1980s, an alarming new study has found.

New Zealand scientists have genetically engineered a cow that may be the first in the world to produce hypo-allergenic high-protein milk.

A Northland science teacher dismissed after he supported a gay rights protest at the Catholic school is considering legal action.

A two-and-a-half year expedition by the ship on which Sir Peter Blake was murdered continues his work under the oceans.