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.

Research debunks the theory that "newer" genes are less essential to our survival than more established ones.

The Prime Minister's chief science adviser today hit out at earthquake forecasters such as Ken Ring, saying no one can predict when a quake will strike.

Canterbury Scientific Limited opened the doors to its new $1.2 million laboratory complex in Addington a few days before February's devastating earthquake.

Thirty-five jobs may be up for the chop but affected staff are being consulted before any decisions, Niwa says.

Technology to "print" a complete house is just around the corner.

Scientist says that exercise is the key to mental fitness.

The magnetic north pole is moving faster than at any time in human history.

Three earthquakes have struck Wellington this week - one measuring 4.7 - but a seismologist says they are not linked the Christchurch quakes.

The earthquake and last week's deadly tremor were on faultlines that did not exist on GNS Science's database.

I remember when the weather was innocent and free.