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.

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.

A university student is juggling a law degree while remaining technically homeless as she bounces from flat to flat, raising money for a scholarship fund.

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.

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 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.

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.

Many women who do the recommended amount of exercise may be harming themselves by eating too little, a survey indicates.

New research has found babies are safe to sleep in a Maori flax-woven bassinet that was behind a controversial Government policy U-turn

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.