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.

NZ has the fourth-highest rate of child deaths from assault in the OECD. Simon Collins visited three communities to look for the root causes.

Research reveals bosses would be barking mad to ban dogs from workplaces, say two visiting professors from the United States.

Horror parasites brainwash their victims, driving them to kill themselves. And they're in your backyard.

Scientists will reconstruct more than 20,000 years of NZ's ecological history to better understand how our species will respond to climate change.

Kiwi men are doing their bit for family planning, with an increasing percentage having "the snip", while fewer women are having their tubes tied, a new study indicates.

Some of the procedures that medical students admitted to performing unsupervised included cyst removal, puncturing veins and stitching up wounds.

New Zealand is punching above its weight in its output of top-quality research, with a new index ranking the country above larger nations like Saudi Arabia and South Africa.

The cost of housing in Auckland is pushing staff in industries to leave the city, while Auckland businesses must be prepared to pay more to keep staff.

A top Auckland school is losing three science teachers as houses become an "unrealistic" goal for many in the profession.

It's called Squish - and it could mean all the difference in treating millions of people around the world with strawberry birthmarks and other related disfiguring conditions.

Changes undermine value of national bowel screening programme, expert says.

The sharp population decline of kakapo is associated with European colonisation of New Zealand, rather than Polynesians, researchers say.

Two New Zealand universities are among the top 100 in the world for these subjects...

Babies born under the care of midwives have suffered higher rates of damage than those whose mothers were looked after by doctors, according to new research.

The NZ Herald is today raising awareness of the struggles of thousands of homeless Kiwis.

Young people are labouring under the false impression roll-your-own Roll Your Own cigarettes are healthier than manufactured ones

New study shows much-maligned birds were able to build vocabularies ranging from 26 to 58 words.

An expatriate Kiwi writer who has lived in half a dozen countries says New Zealand culture is uniquely hostile towards women. Katherine

The police officer who was knocked unconscious by a rich-lister's son in an alcohol-fuelled attack was also attacked by a young man five years ago.

More than half of New Zealand's 41,000 homeless people are now families with children, according to new Otago University research.

A new study investigating intriguing links between mental illness and heart disease risk is among $1.5 million in grants announced today.

Advertisements are being placed at supermarkets by people wanting to live in cars seeking "driveway and shower" arrangements.

Flying drones close enough to southern right whales to catch some of the bugs they blow out will help tell scientists more about the effects climate change is having on the planet.