A pain which promises to click away pain with the power of rose quartz is under scrutiny from Consumer NZ.

Travel is safer now, so fewer of us are dying in large-scale disasters, but climate change could reverse the trend.

Four Otago students were seriously assaulted by non-students.

Daily and weekly doses effective, but not monthly.

Mankind is already adapting to the widespread impacts of future climate change - but how did we do it in the past? A Kiwi researcher has helped explain.

Whales, toothfish and the confounding puzzle that is Antarctica's sea ice will be targeted in six bold new Kiwi studies to be carried out on the frozen continent and in the Southern Ocean.

Preparing New Zealand's water stores for a warmer climate is a major focus of new research projects just awarded more than $2 million.

Prominent Kiwis have banded together to demand an independent inquiry into the claims of sexual and physical abuse of children in state care.

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

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

A new report about the collapse of a balcony at a student concert in Dunedin has revealed a number of failings.

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?

The state of our rivers and lakes has predictably come under intensified focus this summer, as Kiwis head to their favourite watering holes.

James Bond might have stubbed out his last cigarette - but the spectre of smoking still lingers over 007's films today, Kiwi researchers say.

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

Researchers call for ban on ban on alcohol sponsorship of sport

A "spectacular" multi-million dollar homestead on the edge of Lake Wakatipu and the foothills of the Remarkables has been donated to the University of Otago.

The product remains a mystery, with the ad saying it was important the "innovative technology" be kept under wraps until the launch.

Doctors are at loggerheads over changes to New Zealand's cervical screening programme, with one saying more women will die.

Scientists are seeking to solve one of the most intriguing mysteries of the disease that's killing our kauri - why it's attracted to the native tree's scent like we're drawn to coffee.

How narcissistic are Kiwis?

A rich-lister's son who made headlines for punching a police officer unconscious has finished second in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.

One of the most notorious forms of breast cancer is to be targeted in a new study by an Auckland University researcher and cancer survivor.

Leading local family law specialist Fiona Mackenzie was awarded a PhD in law from Otago University yesterday, three decades after

School leavers remarkably unaffected by earthquakes, surprising research finds.

Annual monitor shows child poverty rates are stable but children's commissioner calls for a poverty reduction target to be set.

The more porn a man watches, the less sexually intimate he is with his female partner, a new study suggests.

A University of Otago study found that just four businesses in New Zealand depended solely on sunbeds for income.

New research by Kiwi scientists has revealed how chemotherapy stimulates the release of tiny bubbles from the surface of cancer cells that cause potentially fatal blood clots.

Almost 80 children have died in the care of the New Zealand state in the past 15 years - an average of five a year.