The temperature of the lake has now fallen to about 33C and other monitored indicators show less activity.

Parents who stumble over their words need not worry - it may even help their children learn to talk.

Manuka honey, the premium product found on fashionable breakfast tables, could play a role in the battle against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, scientists reported yesterday.

The quake struck at 2.23pm, 10km east of Christchurch at a depth of 10km, GNS Science said.

A new gel developed by researchers in Australia and New Zealand will aid healing and eliminate scarring for millions of people undergoing nasal surgery around the world.

There's a new player in science communication that has emerged across the Tasman.

It's been an exhausting week for members of the Charlatan Society.

The grave of a famous Aboriginal leader has been discovered in a suburban front garden.

New Zealand is good at doing small, complex clinical trials. We are reasonably priced, we have robust ethics oversight and good researchers.

New Zealand researchers have shed new light on the phenomenon which causes black holes to explode.

With so many ways of storing data, are we forgetting how to remember? Not according to US writer Joshua Foer, who reveals new and remarkable strategies for memorising. By Robin McKie.

If you can be sure of one thing, then surely it is that you exist. Even if the world were a dream or a hallucination, it would still need you to be dreaming or hallucinating it.

A "supermoon", which looked larger and brighter due to its proximity to the Earth, has been all around the world.