Proposed changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme "final nail in the coffin", expert says.

Study will investigate whether vitamins, minerals can help pregnant women with depression.

COMMENT: Involving academics can help drive gains for Corrections where politics fail.

The shocking damage to the Kaikoura coastline may never recover.

Science innovators have been recognised at our top awards for bringing research to market.

Kiwi institutions in top 2.5% of world universities but they lack the profile of some.

NZ universities are climbing in world rankings.

Psychopathy is a "widely misunderstood" form of personality disorder, an expert explains.

Alex Steele realised in the Christchurch earthquake that she wanted to care for others.

There are 12 finalists for the KiwiNet awards.

A European advocacy group has ranked NZ 158th out of 165 nations on children's rights.

Resurrecting long-gone species remains a "sexy idea" but still not straightforward.

Christchurch students travel the distance of a trip to the moon to get to top schools.

Jumping spiders are to be imported into New Zealand for world-leading research.

COMMENT: Driverless cars should learn lessons from crashes, writes Sean Welsh.

Around 435,000 residents would be forced to flee in an Auckland eruption scenario.

A former MIT lecturer said he resigned in protest when the student was not disciplined.

The severity of the crimes being committed by youth in Christchurch is escalating.

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

Christchurch and Japanese academics are developing new drone technologies that would be able to locate people buried in wreckage following natural disasters.

Kiwi scientists could soon have a new way to safely get an up-close look at erupting volcanoes: send in the drone.

A war-era DC-3 aircraft is playing an unlikely role in a state-of-the-art scientific survey of Antarctica's sea ice.

The University of Canterbury has revealed its new post-earthquake design.

Creating "designer" ecosystems for degraded waterways could boost river restoration efforts around the country.

As 2016 draws to a close, the NZ Science Media Centre picked some of the biggest national and international science stories that made headlines

A licence to fish for whitebait, much like the Fish and Game sports fishing licence, has been suggested as one way of managing the fishery.

Tanya Quedley, 48, was sexually abused by her own father from age 9 or 10 until she ran away at 14.

Scientists working in North Canterbury have captured incredible images showing the fractures in the landscape wrought by this month's 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake.

Compared to other fibres, yak wool is more sustainable because yaks aren't farmed specifically for wool.

A teenager faces a court hearing for allegedly saying "this teacher is mean as f***" in a public place.