Welby Ings believes teachers need to disobey rules to help students believe in themselves.

Up to 3600 students were out in force at the event.

A study has revealed lead concentrations in some NZ centres exceed health guidelines.

Research showed there was likely to have been a significant effect on memory.

Poorer outcomes for some blamed on NZ's leaded petrol.

Many Kiwi women can't correctly pinpoint their fertile window, a new study suggests.

The world's most detailed human data collection wins our biggest cash award for science.

NZ's economic growth is "approaching its environmental limits", a once-a-decade environmental report card says.

The New Zealand Health Research Council has injected $1.6 million into a research project to tackle diabetes.

Children appeal to Otago students to throw their glass away.

Kiwi scientists have found an intriguing new way to control individual atoms.

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

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.

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

Kiwi researchers will investigate whether microbes found inside our gut could hold the key to battling the development of diabetes.

Lifting your intake of fruit and vegetables can make a difference to the way you feel in just a couple of weeks, a University of Otago study has found.

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.