The 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake triggered the most violent shaking ever seen in New Zealand.

Young New Zealanders are increasing shunning universities for apprenticeships

NZ scientists find giving pregnant mums repeat doses of steroids helps prem babies health.

Researchers say a government agency holds more than 100 reports into alleged fish dumping.

Expert art criminologist believes thieves could use $1m stolen paintings for cash ransom.

He has been accepted into a two-year Master in Public Policy course starting in August.

Scientists says new study results encouraging when climate research faces fresh threat.

Academics say they're being told to pass incompetent students so they keep paying fees.

A transgender pioneer and author died last week when his car collided with a train.

Unnecessary prescriptions could lead to serious long-term consequences.

A young Auckland woman's tragic death saved six lives on her 20th birthday.

Our alpine parrot may be much smarter than we think, scientists say.

By better understanding how our brains work, can we change how we feel pain? A world-leading Kiwi neuroscientist, back in New Zealand, talks to science reporter Jamie Morton.

Researchers crunched the numbers on your ride.

A Kiwi researcher is set to peer inside the minds of porn users.

Smoking weed, dirty undies and boring leaders were hot topics of the night at the first election debate of the year.

New Zealand universities have again scored high rankings in the annual QS World University Subject Rankings.

Mavis Mullins has risen to prominence from early roots in Paewai shearing firm.

Auckland University students are sceptical a new European group could 'accidentally come up with a slogan that evokes Nazi Germany'.

NZ research may hold key to disease treatment to stop spread from cell to cell.

Daily and weekly doses effective, but not monthly.

The Government must step in to curb the marketing of unhealthy food to our children, a leading public health researcher argues.

Pre and post-natal depression has been studied exhaustively in mothers - but a new study of 3500 Kiwi men has revealed how dads are also affected by the baby blues.

Manufacturers and marketers have long stuck by three certain "dimensions" of food - taste, texture and smell. But what if there was a fourth?

Scientists have ruled out any suggestion this morning's 5.2 quake was linked to the mass whale stranding at Farewell Spit.

Kiwi conflict resolution experts have slammed the country's "dangerous double standard" on the Israel-Palestine problem.

Ice baths, used by the All Blacks and other elite athletes, are no more effective than active recovery according to new research undertaken in part by the University of Auckland.

Too little "huff and puff" and too much screen time, childhood obesity study finds.

A Kiwi scientist has unexpectedly discovered what appears to be a huge undersea volcanic eruption near the main island of Tonga.

Children using smartphones and tablets from an early age can have both troubling and positive consequences, a leading academic says.