Science
NZ's glaciers melting too
Visitors to the Franz Josef glacier are noticing changes - it's melting away
Rare stirrings in Antarctic sky
A sudden stratospheric warming over the Antarctic could be driving NZ's stormy August weather.
Govt urged to fund gaming
Interactive games are a $143 million business in New Zealand, but it could be bigger, the industry says.
Funeral for dead glacier
Icelanders hike up a volcano to say goodbye to a glacier that fell victim to climate change.
Nature may 'never recover'
New Zealand bird diversity could take 50 million years to recover from extinctions caused by humans, a new study has found.
Master waka navigator Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr
When people said Māori arrived in Aotearoa by luck not skill, navigator Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr set out to prove them wrong.
Committment to the craft
OBITUARY: Dr Bruce Riddolls lived by one mantra - to understand engineering you had to understand rocks.
ISS seen from Canterbury
Video shows silhouette of the spacecraft whizzing across the face of the Moon.
Weather wakes up
It's been a very unsettled, wintry couple of weeks and the stormy weather could make the start of spring cold too.
Scientists find micro plastics in Arctic
Discovery indicates the particles are being sucked into atmosphere and carried to some of the most remote corners of the planet.
Understanding Antarctic ice melt
Researchers ran simulations to understand the 1000km retreat of the Ross Ice Shelf during the past 20,000 years.
Gene edited babies concern
The scientist who worked on twin girls was called "China's Frankenstein" and his methods were described as clandestine.
New MetService website
More towns, specialised forecasts, and clearer indications of likely extreme weather are part of the site's revamp.
Mystery surrounds black hole's 'glow'
A black hole four million times larger than the sun has been glowing with "unprecedented brightness". Scientists aren't sure why.
Don’t lick sexy pavement lichen
There are claims the lichen is a natural Viagra, but scientific evidence is scant.
Meteor shower due tonight
The night skies are set to light up as a fireball meteor shower streaks across the globe.
'Surprising amount' of aftershocks
More than 25 aftershocks followed the magnitude 5.5 quake in Fiordland on Monday night.
Scene set for a crucial conversation
OPINION: Kiwis have the rare opportunity to be part of a conversation crucial to our future.
Call for gene editing of pests
Royal Society Te Apārangi says Government should consider gene editing to help eradicate pests.
Motueka quake deep in crust
Monday morning's Nelson-Tasman earthquake was deep within the collision zone between the Pacific and Australian crustal plates.
Stroke breakthrough hope
Stroke victims could have the chance of a full recovery thanks to a stem cell injection that extends the "golden hour" to a day and a half.
Too many pink salmon in North Pacific
Researchers wonder whether there's too much of a good thing in the North Pacific Ocean.
Hope for threatened spider
Foreign invaders and habitat loss, the tale of the country's only dangerous native spider.
More snow for south
Another wet and snowy weekend is on the way but telling where the worst weather will be remains tricky.
Extreme creatures' moon crash
An Israeli spacecraft which crashed on the moon in April had some unusual passengers - and they might just have survived the impact.
Aurora just as cool from space
Kiwis have been loving the aurora from Earth this week - here's what it looks like from in orbit.
Big asteroid zooming past
Rock up to 570m in diameter will come within 7.4 million kilometres of Earth on Friday, travelling around 16,740kmh.