Science

The Aurora Australis put on a spectacle in a rare solar storm recently, and more are expected over the coming weeks and months. Audio

Wellington Zhaotai Therapies executive director Peter Lai said the partnership could potentially extend to other countries and cell therapies.

AgResearch is teaming up with regional councils and Rural Contractors New Zealand to collate information on alligator weed in a bid to better understand its spread.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found the building blocks of new planets located in a galaxy neighbouring the Milky Way.

Archaeologist have learned more about the early settlers in a gold mining town after examining their graves and exhumed remains. Audio

Scientists have discovered 26 new worm species, and evidence the creatures exist in stunning numbers.

Researchers have found elephant seals falling asleep at sea and tumbling hundreds of metres deep in uncontrolled spirals.

Grab your gumboots! Alison Ballance squelches out into Nelson's mudflats with a team of Cawthron Institute researchers in search of cryptic seagrass flowers and their seeds. Collecting the seeds is…

A previously unknown population of Clutha flatheads has been found in Central Otago thanks to DNA technology.

Opinion - Extreme weather events are complex and working out exactly how much damage climate change caused is a tricky task, write climate science experts.

Scientists say flood protection works are absolutely needed in the short term, but the government needs to consider funding a more modern, holistic approach to river management into the future.

Parts of New Zealand will get a brief, small glimpse of an unusual hybrid solar eclipse that is causing considerable excitement in the northwestern corner of Western Australia.