Science
Bleak lesson from ebola outbreak
Deadly ebola outbreaks are a higher risk where deforestation changes jungle habitats, a Kiwi scientist has found.
What mining can offer dairy science
The dairy industry is getting help from some unusual quarters in its drive to make more from value-add products.
Women in science scholarship
Scholarship aims to support women who are "significantly under-represented" in sciences.
114 new planets discovered
Astronomers scanned 1600 stars over a 20-year period. This is what they found.
Pukeko cull an opportunity to learn
600 Pukeko were culled from Tawharanui, but they did not go to waste.
Problems with the Doomsday Clock
Range of world threats now includes climate change, flus, transgenic plants, hackers, giant asteroids and so forth.
What to do with 300 dead whales
It'll be up to DoC to clean up the carcasses of 300 whales that beached at Farewell Spit. And it's a masive job.
Robot bees to the rescue?
Scientists hope robots can one day help with pollination, as natural bee populations decline.
Men's revolutionary new birth control
Vasalgel works like a vasectomy – but is completely reversible.
A new kind of black hole
Black holes are not necessarily as big as astronomers thought, researchers discover
Seabirds' squawks mapped for science
Recording devices have been scattered across the Hauraki Gulf in an attempt to save New Zealand's seabirds.
Alpine Fault 'movement' overdue
"Thankfully most of the Alpine Fault is located in sparsely populated areas, so it is hoped the number of casualties, if any, will be low."
2000 pollen samples studied
Fossilised tree pollen is giving us a better understanding of climate change over the last 34 million years.
Rise in malaria superbugs
Multidrug-resistant superbugs are threatening to undermine progress against the disease, say scientists.
Dangerous timepieces, cruel companies
How a successful watchmaking technique resulted in thousands of dead workers.
Locked-in dad rejects future son-in-law
Groundbreaking technology helped him to speak for the first time in years. But his daughter probably wished he hadn't.
Outbreak may wipe out monkeys
Brazil's worst yellow fever outbreak in decades may eradicate the muriqui monkey, which is already close to extinction.
Mind-reading breakthrough
Your brain is intact but you cannot speak or even move. But now there could be a way out of "locked-in" syndrome.
Tonga's underwater volcano
46km out to sea from Tonga's capital lies a "submarine volcano" - and it's been erupting for over a week.
Sea floor reshaped by quake
New 3-D maps show the impact of the Kaikoura earthquake on the surrounding sea floor.
The hunt for Antarctica's meteorites
Antarctica is providing a "conveyor belt" of meteorites - and possible clues about our solar system's history.
Case for Lincoln Hub submitted
Plans for $206 million research centre have gone to the Government but path ahead still unclear.
Science success for students
"It's an amazing reflection on these two as young people," says Wakatipu High School principal Steve Hall.
One in 29 million
What started as a way to get time off from school led to Andy Nevin saving a life.
Cancer link to chemical in lollies
An additive commonly used in lollies, biscuits and chewing gum has been linked to early stages of cancers.
Children learn where food comes from
Schoolchildren can get a closer look at the science of food from the ground up.
466m-year-old meteors still falling
Millions of years ago, a space explosion sent shrapnel raining down on Earth. They're still falling.
Rotting phytoplankton causes smell
The strange odour radiating from your togs after a dip in Christchurch's new green seas is smell of rotting phytoplankton.
