Tens of thousands of rural New Zealanders could be drinking water with harmful nitrate levels, researchers say. The ...

Government changes to the earthquake-prone building system will remove nearly 3000 buildings from the classification.

We're edging closer to exceeding 1.5°C of warming globally, and scientists will soon gather to understand the implications of ...

US doctors will soon be advised not to prescribe the pain reliever paracetamol to pregnant women, US President Donald Trump ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting to review childhood vaccine recommendations in the US. The ...

Young contact sports players' brains can show signs of damage years before symptoms of long-term brain disease appear, a ...

International researchers who studied the merging of two black holes say their new observations match theories developed by Stephen Hawking and NZ scientist Roy Kerr over half a century ago. Professor ...

An emergency set net fishing ban to protect yellow-eyed penguins around the Otago Peninsula begins at 5 pm today. The ...

Five well-publicised geoengineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change in the polar regions are “extremely unlikely” to work, and are a risk to the environment, say NZ and international ...

The Government will be changing aspects to New Zealand’s higher education system, informed by a recently released report by the University Advisory Group. Changes include a new strategy for all of New ...