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.

A compromise between the United States and New Zealand could create the world's largest marine protected area in the Ross Sea.

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 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.

A Northland teacher who was suspended last month after he supported a pro-gay protest at the Catholic College he taught at has lost his job.

Alan Perrott talks to an adopted Aucklander whose obsession with knowing how and why has helped solve one of humanity’s greatest unknowns.

A scathing judgment backing Niwa represents a damning of climate sceptics' crusade.