Science

Scientists say they observed thousands of crustaceans gorging on the corpse of a large sunfish and saw the intact vertebrae of a four-metre-long shark during their dives.

If you're finding it hard to see the stars in the sky where you live - you're not alone.

We've all felt the sting, but why does it itch so much? Science has yet to develop a cure for the common mosquito bite, but here's some tips that may help stop the scratching.

Technology to remove the planet-warming greenhouse gas CO2 from our atmosphere must be urgently ramped up, leading climate experts say in a new report.

Previously believed doomed due to climate change, it turns out echidnas have worked out some novel ways of keeping cool.

In the final instalment of our summer science series, we bring you two stories from the ocean. First we have a story on marine noise pollution from Victoria University of Wellington Centre for Science…

Marine antifouling technologies that include air bubble barriers could help keep marinas clean and stop ships being turned away from New Zealand ports.

New Zealand scientists are planning to drill nearly a kilometre through Antarctic ice and into the earth below.

Was this a new type of eruption we've never seen before? Was it a wake-up call? Yes and yes.

Researchers claim to put a number on what Exxon knew about temperature rise as early as the 1970s.

Scientists are warning 2023 could be even warmer than last year.

The new James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first planet orbiting another star.

We continue our summer science series with an episode from RNZ's The Aotearoa History Show. In the first episode of season two, the show burrows into the story of rabbits and other pests introduced to…

A local marine museum's curator called Molly's Christmas Day discovery on the beach a "once-in-a-lifetime kind of find".