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 3D-printed nose guard has earned a Wellington student the top prize in the New Zealand leg of a global design competition.

A former Victoria University student who felt unsafe on city streets has developed a smartphone app that keeps tabs on its user in dangerous situations.

New Kiwi research has proven that Facebook "trolls" aren't so willing to be as cruel in everyday life.

The days of using a ruler to scratch beneath a plaster cast may be over, thanks to this year's winning invention in the NZ leg of a global product design competition.

Valuable books are thought to be safe after a fire at Victoria University's library in Wellington this morning was sparked in an acetylene tank.

An new interactive tool developed by a Victoria University professor in conjunction with Treasury lets people address the Government's long-term financial pressures.

NZ's top climate change scientists have rallied together to slam a visiting sceptic who is touring the country to proclaim global warming as a myth that should be ignored.

All eight of New Zealand's universities are being taken to the New Zealand Copyright Tribunal for refusing to agree to an increased annual licence fee which allows lecturers to copy authors' work for students.

The absence of out gay players perpetuates the appearance that rugby is a game for "red-blooded" heterosexual men, writes Dean Knight, and reinforces the barriers to participation by gays at all levels of the game.

New Zealand universities have spent more than $250,000 dishing out honorary degrees to celebrities and visiting dignitaries, a Herald investigation into the eight institutions has found.

Next week, Kiwi musician Jason Kerrison will sit around a bonfire in the Far North strumming a guitar with friends - preparing for the end of time.

The respected policy expert charged with finding solutions to child poverty has challenged men to take responsibility for children's well-being - it's not enough to leave it to the womenfolk.