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.

When he graduates university next year, Tristan Pang will be 16. What's next?

Posters for a "white rights" group believed to have been started in NZ were posted around Auckland University.

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.

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.

No room for the Conservatives or The Opportunities Party at first debate.

Lawyer and former naval officer Christopher Penk has been chosen to replace John Key as National's candidate in the Helensville electorate.

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.

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.

An Auckland-based doctor's ground-breaking research - involving lab-cultivated, living, beating heart cells - could land a blow against a major killer of Kiwi children.

Today marks six months since the Government announced an ambitious plan to rid New Zealand of pest predators by 2050. Is the concept possible, or even safe?

New movie Hidden Figures tells the story of African-American women who played a crucial role in NASA's early space missions. Does NZ science have its own diversity problem?

A new Kiwi study will attempt to reveal what happens to our brains when we take anti-depressants - and whether these intriguing changes can be easily measured.

Catching up with the nine top scholars from 2015 NCEA exams, a year on from their results.

In the last of a five-part series looking at research in Auckland's blue backyard, an expert discusses how far our ocean ecosystems can be pushed.