One of the closest active faults to Dunedin is not giving up its secrets easily.

Could our Friday night fish and chips also be a missing piece to the puzzle of human DNA?

Scientists suggest a laser-based approach could test the quality fish oil supplements.

The University of Otago's human nutrition department is the latest in the firing line.

Scientist "concerned" DNA testers claim they can pinpoint a person's racial ancestry.

University of Otago has received a $150,000 explorer grant.

NZ scientist set to test the waters of Loch Ness to determine if Nessie exists.

Welby Ings believes teachers need to disobey rules to help students believe in themselves.

Up to 3600 students were out in force at the event.

Poorer outcomes for some blamed on NZ's leaded petrol.

Many Kiwi women can't correctly pinpoint their fertile window, a new study suggests.

The world's most detailed human data collection wins our biggest cash award for science.

NZ's economic growth is "approaching its environmental limits", a once-a-decade environmental report card says.

The New Zealand Health Research Council has injected $1.6 million into a research project to tackle diabetes.

By better understanding how our brains work, can we change how we feel pain? A world-leading Kiwi neuroscientist, back in New Zealand, talks to science reporter Jamie Morton.

A university student is juggling a law degree while remaining technically homeless as she bounces from flat to flat, raising money for a scholarship fund.

Children appeal to Otago students to throw their glass away.

Kiwi scientists have found an intriguing new way to control individual atoms.

Travel is safer now, so fewer of us are dying in large-scale disasters, but climate change could reverse the trend.

Four Otago students were seriously assaulted by non-students.

Daily and weekly doses effective, but not monthly.

Mankind is already adapting to the widespread impacts of future climate change - but how did we do it in the past? A Kiwi researcher has helped explain.

Whales, toothfish and the confounding puzzle that is Antarctica's sea ice will be targeted in six bold new Kiwi studies to be carried out on the frozen continent and in the Southern Ocean.

Preparing New Zealand's water stores for a warmer climate is a major focus of new research projects just awarded more than $2 million.

Prominent Kiwis have banded together to demand an independent inquiry into the claims of sexual and physical abuse of children in state care.

Kiwi scientists could soon have a new way to safely get an up-close look at erupting volcanoes: send in the drone.

Kiwi researchers will investigate whether microbes found inside our gut could hold the key to battling the development of diabetes.

Lifting your intake of fruit and vegetables can make a difference to the way you feel in just a couple of weeks, a University of Otago study has found.

Kiwi conflict resolution experts have slammed the country's "dangerous double standard" on the Israel-Palestine problem.

A new report about the collapse of a balcony at a student concert in Dunedin has revealed a number of failings.