A magnitude 5 earthquake has struck off the North Island's East Coast this morning.

Hotter temperatures the norm for NZ over autumn, with no rain in sight for dry Nelson.

Student Kishore Cholkar's research involved nanotechnology.

The video shows an eagle-eye view of the slime-green crater lake bubbling aggressively.

Southern right whales could be rediscovering old migratory paths to NZ, researchers say.

NZ school students plan to join a global "strike for climate" on March 15.

With methane emissions soaring, NZ shouldn't be waiting for a solution, scientist says.

Food industry group says diet drink/stroke study is fake news

Canterbury University students Matthew Furkert, Jack Davies, Robbie Grove and Thomas Bell have sent a rocket 31,000 feet above the Waikato countryside.

He was a pioneering computer scientist who died in mysterious circumstances.

NZ's hihi shows threatened species are having a tougher time adapting to a changing world.

Technoference is a growing problem in modern relationships. Is human evolution to blame?

COMMENT: It's time to make polluting fashion go out of trend.

Scientists draw another curious link between NZ's ancient bird species and Madagascar.

Eating a high-fat diet is bad for the bugs that live within us and help our health.

The lost Haast's eagle arrived here from Australia to become a global giant, study finds.

"The only way I can describe it is like when a cat offers you a mouse," diver says.

Much of New Zealand was bathed in the glow of the moon in perigee last night.

Test of genetic doubles gave scientists the opportunity to track details of human biology.

For universities around the world, the study of love has proven to be a winning formula.

Students in China want to join Alexandria Villasenor's climate change movement.

Scientists have shed fresh light on why seemingly unrelated diseases so often go together.

COMMENT: Research shows reducing the age for free mammograms to 35 could save lives.

The gigantic megalodon went extinct earlier than thought - with the great white to blame.

Century-old bird specimens may be key to saving an under-threat Hauraki Gulf species.

Buoys dropped in the world's strongest ocean current have travelled 6500km in just a year.

Last summer's record-hot temperatures are a warning about our future, scientist says.

Stalagmites and stalactites could predict the next big quake, or the next super-eruption.

Study reveals Taranaki blew more recently than we thought - with a warning for the future.

Lyttleton locals were so spooked by weird tides that tsunami scientists were alerted.