Rates of hospitalisation were higher for Māori women compared with any other ethnicity.

Rampant glacier loss shows NZ may become 'land of the short white cloud', scientist says.

World-first study to reveal the health benefits of non-Caesarean births.

Deadly pyroclastic flows from Taranaki eruptions can spread further than once thought.

Development suffers at an early stage for those growing up in poor households.

Silent, slow-burning earthquakes can displace faults over days and months.

The reason kiwi are flightless likely lies in their molecular roots, scientists say.

Alzheimer's disease probably affects twice as many people as current estimates suggest.

More work urgently needed to arrest decline of NZ's vanishing nature, report finds.

A NZ scientist is exploring a new high-blocking vaccine for drug addiction.

Corin Copeland has a heart condition that is so rare that it has no name.

The asteroid claimed the dinosaurs, but T.rex was joined by hordes of other living things.

COMMENT: European Union moves fast to consign speeding to the past.

A group of students out on a field trip encountered a humpback whale caught up in rope.

Kiwi kids have made an unlikely plea to PM Jacinda Ardern: ban junkfood marketing.

A dramatic new stocktake shows climate change is here - and now affecting millions of us.

Rising seas are putting hundreds of campgrounds and archaeological sites at risk.

Five NZ islands in global list of offshore havens to save Earth's most threatened species.

The study may also prove a crucial fresh starting point for an Alzheimer's cure.

Energy demand around the world grew by the most rapid increase in a decade.

Biological emissions from farms should be policed differently to CO2, watchdog says.

Scientists have unravelled the 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake - the most complex ever recorded.

Leading DNA expert believes he can answer forensic question baffling investigators.

Whale song recordings aid recovery of rare ocean giant.

NZ's famous glaciers are looking "sad and dirty" after another brutally warm summer.

Scientists make crucial discoveries about a NZ whale species nearly driven to extinction.

Backyard burial can be dangerous for other pets and wildlife.

Dogs' cooperative submissive nature evolved from their grey wolf ancestors.

Scientists are closing in on a way to help young boys undergoing cancer treatment.

Bigger, better accelerator has physicists abuzz.