After another of NZ's hottest summers, study suggests risk of normalising climate change.

COMMENT: Personalities of domestic cats might directly mirror that of their owners.

There are signs that pledges to give up flying are gaining traction.

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.

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

A group of students have launched themselves into the record books with an odd experiment.

Hollywood star Michael J Fox's charity is funding promising NZ Parkinson's research.

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.

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

The best of a trio of "supermoons" rises tonight. And no, it won't send you barking mad.

You might have heard of wearable gadgets – but how about chewable technology?

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.