If there was any doubt Mt Maunganui is a surfer's paradise, one only had to check out the gnarly clouds hanging above it yesterday.

Wellington's leaders officially announced their plans to make the city the world's first predator-free capital. Should Auckland follow suit?

A new $8.5 million study targets "extreme fire" - a fast-moving mass of heat and flames spewing burning embers and behaving in ways that firefighters aren't used to.

A new study will reveal the true threat NZ faces from an offshore area that may trigger massive quakes and tsunamis.

Researchers testing chemical compounds for motor neurone disease treatment.

Pigeons get a bad rap for coating city squares with droppings and otherwise making themselves a nuisance - but thanks to Kiwi research, no one can now call them dumb.

It wasn't long ago that school projects were completed by students referencing an encyclopedia source that they could quote in their bibliography.

The East Coast Lab has been launched to research New Zealand’s least understood subduction zone, the Hikurangi Trough. Made with funding from NZ on Air

Researchers have fitted tracker tags on queen bumble bees in a quirky new study that could see the furry insects becoming big future pollinators in orchards.

A Mt Albert Grammar School student suspected of having the mumps has triggered a warning to parents to keep home children not immunised against the disease.

The 1500-year-old Israeli scroll has been revealed to contain versus from Leviticus.

New research explains intriguing clues about African exodus, says Kiwi scientist.

A new leadership programme focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) at Auckland's Otahuhu College is inspiring its young students.

More than 840,000 Kiwis caught the flu last year - and three quarters of them would never have known it, a study has found.

Researchers are calling on GPs to be more responsible in prescribing a common topical cream that could have contributed to a soaring rate of skin infections

Methane frosts that shift with the seasons, a massive glacier and craters of gas, Pluto is a fascinating planet.

Scientists reveal how 5300-year-old corpse met his end - and that the 'iceman' called Otzi had 61 tattoos.

A fight is brewing over the product labelling and health claims of the Australian dairy industry's most bitter rivals.

This week is International Drive Electric Week, a worldwide event to raise awareness of plug-in electric vehicles.

Scientists have disproven the idea that it's okay to scoop up food and eat it within a "safe" five-second window.

Organisers of the annual Great Kereru Count are hoping there won't be any shortage of people keeping their eyes peeled for our quirky native wood pigeon over the next week.

The country's first rocket company is now almost clear to launch, after the Government signed off on the contract.

There's now a version of Aotearoa in space, with the International Astronomical Union (IAU) formally approving the name "New Zealand" for an asteroid.

Scientists are now confident White Island's latest eruptive episode has come to a close.

A check for invasive aquatic pests around Auckland's Westhaven Marina has been postponed after the dive team happened upon a slightly bigger foreign marine organism: a visiting leopard seal.

Tool use is rare in the animal kingdom - but a nearly vanished species of Hawaiian crow has mastered it.

It's hard to dodge sugar because we have no idea about how much added sugar is in the food and drink we consume every day, a new report finds.

Scientists create offspring without a female egg, which could eventually pave the way for a baby to be born from DNA of two men.

Aussie scientists have developed an exercise pill that tricks the body into responding as though it's been to the gym.

A Japanese study reports: "We conclude that large earthquakes are more probable during periods of high tidal stress."