An iDevice update is looming; Kiwi developers offer disaster apps, data storage for Christchurch.

Events aim to encourage university researchers and companies to start talking to each other.

Research by the University of Otago found the social cost of injury in the home cost about $13b a year, while estimates by the Ministry of Transport put road injury costs at $3.84b.

Adults who drank plenty of the free milk supplied at schools when they were young have a reduced risk of bowel cancer, a study has found.

The festive season is a time of excess. But as the country’s top traffic officer Paula Rose tells Alan Perrott, there is little cheer in counting its cost.

Universal or voluntary membership? That was the question put to tertiary students in 1999 after the National Government passed a law insisting they choose how they should belong to their student association.

An Otago University study has challenged the idea that depression and anti-social behaviour are primarily influenced by genes.

Household crowding is being partially blamed for NZ's high rate of acute rheumatic fever among children and teenagers.

A professor nominates the 200 books that will teach you more than you will learn at University.

An Otago University molecular biologist has been awarded New Zealand's top science and technology honour, the 2010 Rutherford Medal.

Graphic images of the adverse health effects of smoking do deter young adult smokers and should be significantly increased in size, NZ research has found.

Alcohol has become so affordable that it is cheaper than bottled water and approaching the price of milk, says a study made public today.