New Zealand's new Prime Minister is a former farmer and literature student from smalltown Southland who once described himself as "specialising in being boring".

A prominent NZ scientist explains why we should ignore alarmist claims that climate change will soon kill us all.

A mother of two who defrauded a university of almost $500,000 has been granted home detention.

By noon today, scientists had recorded nearly 5000 aftershocks from last Monday's big shake. But what are aftershocks and what can they tell us? Jamie Morton explains.

Parts of New Zealand are sinking at faster rates than others and will be subjected to higher levels of future sea level rise, a scientist says.

A student volunteer army set up overnight is already knocking on the doors of quake and flood stricken houses around Wellington's Victoria University.

As Donald Trump's presidential victory sinks in, Government and experts are starting to count the potential cost to New Zealand's climate change commitments, its defence ties, and even its core values.

Scientists are to harness the power of ultra-fast lasers to finally reveal how an intriguing and complex UV filter within our bodies protect us from the sun.

Ultra-sensitive fibre-optic sensors extending nearly a kilometre below the Southern Alps will transform what we know about one of the biggest earthquake threats facing New Zealand.

Bachelor of Engineering with Honours student Lucy French is extending her software engineering knowledge to others by creating an

A New Zealand-based researcher is investigating "moonquakes" - a curious lunar phenomenon first discovered by Nasa's Apollo missions.

Recent controversies over Indian students were just waiting to happen says Victoria University academic.

Victoria University Software Engineering student Liam De Grey has not yet finished his degree, but already his research is being used

Victoria University Bachelor of Engineering with Honours student Jamie Sanson had the opportunity to indulge a life-long interest

Victoria University of Wellington Bachelor of Engineering student, Chelsea Miller spent the summer designing and building special mirrors which only reflect certain colours.

A 30-year study has found European and Polynesian gene pools are different and should be treated separately when matching tissues for transplants or prescribing medicines.

Whanganui 21-year-old Patrick Richardson has celebrated his formal commissioning as a Royal Navy Officer on parade at Britannia Royal

Labour leader Andrew Little has downplayed his comments that the party could hold a referendum on decriminalising cannabis if in Government.

University workers look forward to their community when Casey Meyer is their driver.

Students think they may have answer to homelessness: beehives on city roofs.

Kieran Carnegie's Master's research is helping find a solution for simulator sickness, a phenomena where people feel sick when immersed in environments such as the computer-generated worlds of virtual reality (VR).

In 2012, Victoria University launched a new postgraduate programme in Computer Graphics, developed in conjunction with movie visual effects company Weta Digital, games company PikPok and former advanced technology company Fingertapps

Victoria University was evacuated earlier today after a note threatening the detonation of a bomb in the building was discovered.

Drivers may soon be able to use their mobile phones to ease frustrations caused by the apparent whims of traffic signals, if a research project by a Victoria University professor goes ahead.

Bachelor of Law students are looking at the love life of New Zealand's most famous bachelor to help shape their legal minds.

A team of scientists drilling deep into the South Island's high-risk Alpine Fault have been intrigued to encounter unusually high temperatures just several hundred metres below ground.

A team of 100 scientists and engineers has begun drilling a 1.3km-deep borehole into the Alpine Fault to gather information about the inner workings of the fault line.