COMMENT: The more science advances, the more inclined is the human race to cling to nonsense.

GNS volcano information specialist Brad Scott answers questions on the science behind the eruption which sent water shooting 20- to

Residents tell of fear after eight water eruptions of up to 30m on the lake this morning - the first geothermal activity in the area for about 15 years.

Android users are more honest than iPhone users, researchers have found, in a study revealing what our choice of smartphones say about us.

COMMENT: Free online calculator will allow couples to prepare emotionally and financially for their chances of conceiving using IVF.

TASH BELL COMMENT: I love my husband, but love my sleep more. And since we've married, I've just stopped getting it.

Scientists say it's not beyond the realms of possibility that New Zealand could have a sophisticated earthquake early warning (EEW) system - alerting people seconds before a big disaster hits.

Thanks to this research, there has never been a better excuse to eat ice cream for breakfast.

Tash Joyce had a very special delivery waiting in her post box.

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.

Three young children have been treated in hospital for potentially-deadly meningococcal disease.

A stream of bubbles is rising out of the sea around the Kaikoura peninsula as newly formed cracks in the seabed release gases into the water.

Scientists at the Scion Research Institute in Rotorua have developed a way to use sawdust to produce biofuel for the transportation sector. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A pumice raft spotted by a Royal New Zealand Air Force crew has pointed to a possible major undersea eruption somewhere in the Tonga-Kermadec volcanic arc.

Scientists at the Scion Research Institute in Rotorua have developed a way to use sawdust to produce biofuel for the transportation sector. Made with funding from NZ On Air

No place on Earth is safe from the force of Mother Nature but countries on the "Ring of Fire" are certainly most vulnerable.

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.

Mark Sagar's Baby X technology spin-out has gained US$7.5 million in venture capital funding.

First there were "quake cows", now a lamb has been plucked to safety in Canterbury.

COMMENT: The question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe has been asked by people for many years.

Acting Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has been accused of vilifying a Geonet scientist who spoke out about the need for a better tsunami warning system in New Zealand.

It's impossible. But science appears to say it's happening. A prototype space engine seems to be producing energy from nothing.

A new video of the Kekerengu Fault shows the shocking damage caused by last week's 7.8-magnitude earthquake on the landscape.

The new ISS crew members are NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russia's Oleg Novitskiy and France's Thomas Pesquet.

Canterbury University marine ecologist Dr Sharyn Goldstien has been on the ground investigating what the freshly-raised coast at Kaikoura has meant for ocean ecosystems.

Monday's 7.8 quake was bafflingly complex in some ways, but simple in others. Science reporter Jamie Morton delved into the data to look at what we know so far.

Residents are being warned aftershocks connected to the Kaikoura earthquake will continue for months to years.

COMMENT: Being aware of anxiety early on and giving young people the tools to deal with their worries can help prevent more serious problems.

Drops of the controversial pest-control poison 1080 have killed at least two dozen endangered kea in recent years.

This is the final resting place of 'JS', the 14-year-old British girl who fought for the right to be frozen after her death.