The 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake triggered the most violent shaking ever seen in New Zealand.

Right-leaning politicians are generally more attractive than those on the left.

Turbulence strong enough to throw passengers around the cabin could become more common.

As the Royal Society of New Zealand tonight marks 150 years, we look at 10 highlights.

For our bumblebees, it seems being smart comes at a cost.

The tsunami is comparable with some of the biggest events in recent history.

A Kiwi scientist has journeyed to one of the world's most volcanically active regions.

Our oceans are bearing the brunt of climate change. How much more heat can they take?

Is laughter contagious? It is among our cheeky kea.

Slashing pastoral stock numbers by up to 35 per cent has been suggested among ways to push New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions down to zero by 2100.

Our planet's spiders wolf down between 400 and 800 million tonnes of food each year.

Scientists describe November jolt as an "incredibly complex earthquake" in which some land was offset by as much as 12 metres.

The impact quakes can have on city structures has been made frighteningly clear over recent years.

A new study blames as much as half the decline in Arctic sea ice over recent decades on natural causes.

The power-packed storm meteorologists have dubbed the "Tasman Tempest" dumped more rain on Auckland than typically falls for the whole of March.

A sinkhole in New Lynn could be bigger than it looks. So what causes them? We asked an expert.

NZ is not only a beautiful country on the ground but it also looks incredible from the sky.

A scientist researching the mysterious circles says they are "puzzles" containing secret messages - and he's solved them.

What do you see outside your window? If you answered birds, trees or wildlife then congratulations are in order.

Siberia's enormous "hellmouth" crater in the melting permafrost is growing - and opening a portal to a 200,000-year-old world.

Endurance athletes looking to improve their times might consider swishing with a mouth rinse that contains a little sugar during their next performance.

This incredible Yosemite phenomenon happens for only ten days each February.

Our forests and other land areas may be sucking up to 60 per cent more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than previously thought and we can likely thank our native trees for much of it.

New research co-authored by a New Zealand scientist has linked deforestation to the deadly Ebola virus.

Regional climate variability caused an unusual period in which some of NZ's glaciers grew bigger, while glaciers worldwide were shrinking, a new study shows.

The waterfall has always captured the imagination - here are a selection of the most epic examples from around the world.

A world-leading glaciologist says scientists are fast running out of time to fully understand dramatic changes underway in climate change's sleeping giant: Antarctica.

While many of us may find the sounds of chewing or breathing off-putting, for some they're unbearable - and new research has shown their brains are going into overdrive.

A war-era DC-3 aircraft is playing an unlikely role in a state-of-the-art scientific survey of Antarctica's sea ice.

There was nothing unusual about the late-night 5.1 quake that shook Marlborough and the lower North Island on Wednesday, says a scientist.