The hole in the earth’s ozone, the protective layer which filters out harmful ultraviolet radiation, appears to be smaller this year, New Zealand scientists say. The scientists from the National … Read more

When the Olympic flame finally wends its way into the Olympic stadium in Athens to signal the start of the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, it will have covered a … Read more

New Zealand scientists are developing ways to change the colour and patterns of flowers and leaves of ornamental flowers such as Cymbidium orchids. New Zealand scientists are developing ways to … Read more

Eleven hitherto unknown-about New Zealand frogs have been found surviving in a fragile, rocky area of mountains in the middle of New Zealand’s North Island. This first new find of … Read more

Running out of diesel miles away from a destination is no longer something boaties have to worry about thanks to the latest Navman invention. Navman, an international marine research and … Read more

It’s only 15 kilometers from Auckland, but once you are on Motuihe Island, you feel as if you are a thousand kilometers from care. The lucky visitor to the Hauraki … Read more

Like many good inventions, Olaf Diegel’s was born of necessity: a diabetic, he had trouble when traveling in Turkey last year keeping his insulin cool so he decided to invent … Read more

In what is believed to be a first, New Zealand scientists have demonstrated that humans can remember differences in the texture of food. A team at public research institute, HortResearch, … Read more

The verdict is in: marine reserves really do work. New Zealand’s conservation agency, the Department of Conservation, has been collating information on scientific monitoring at 12 marine reserves around the … Read more

The sea holds more than 15,000 fish, more than 6,800 species of zooplankton, and microbes, the ocean’s smallest organisms, form a massive 90 percent of life in the ocean. If … Read more

A tsunami with the same devastating force as the Indian Ocean tsunami could affect coastal areas of New Zealand, local scientist says. “The size of the tsunami surge that came … Read more

For threatened species in New Zealand, one of the country’s offshore islands and the country’s oldest nature reserve has just become safer. New Zealand’s conservation agency, the Department of Conservation … Read more

Tiny shrimp-like crustaceans that are at the heart of the Southern Ocean food chain are in decline, and that could threaten other Antarctic animal life, scientists warn. The new research, … Read more

New Zealand’s ‘grey ghost’, the South Island kokako, is soon to become officially extinct. In the draft of its triennial review of the status of New Zealand’s wildlife, New Zealand’s … Read more

The name Iceland suggests a land of vast stretches of frozen terrain, but as a New Zealand company has found to its advantage, Iceland is a country of both ice … Read more

Inside New Zealand’s kina, the country’s indigenous sea urchin, is a delicacy that can fetch as much as NZ$500 a kilogram in Japan. Each year the Japanese consume 60,000 tons … Read more

The disparity for modern jogging could be started by New Zealand’s athletic coach Arthur Lydiard, but according to researchers, it was jogging two million years ago that helped us show … Read more

Immunizing New Zealand’s 83 remaining kakapo from a deadly bug that killed three young kakapo chicks should help put the flightless New Zealand parrots back on the road to recovery, … Read more

A spectacular expanse of ice-free land in Antarctica now has increased environmental protection following a meeting of the international group that oversees the southern continent. The McMurdo Dry Valleys have … Read more

For baby Adélie penguins on Ross Island in Antarctica, this summer looks bleak. For the second time in four years, sea ice has hemmed in their parents’ route to the … Read more

This summer, with the help of some nifty badges, scientists will be figuring out just how much sun New Zealand school children absorb during their school day. The badges are … Read more

For the next three months New Zealand is helping seed the Pacific Ocean with high[1]tech floats that are taking the ‘pulse’ of the world’s oceans; local marine researchers are also … Read more

This spring, hundreds of young tuatara are making a new home on one of New Zealand’s offshore islands. Born at Victoria University of Wellington, and reared at Nga Manu, a … Read more

The New Zealand government will invest NZ$212 million of new funding in research, science and technology over the next four years, it announced in its May budget. “The government is … Read more

Freeze-dried rat and chemical rat smell are two potential new weapons in the fight again stoats, one of New Zealand’s fiercest and most destructive predators of native birds. In a … Read more

British fertility expert, Robert Lord Winston, believes that fertility treatment should be cheaper, making it more easily available. “Rather than trying to ration IVF too vigorously, look at ways it … Read more

For the first time in New Zealand, an exotic parasite has been found in ostriches, which were imported for farming into New Zealand in the 1990s. The wireworm parasite, which … Read more

New Zealand scientists are participating in an ambitious international research project that plans to identify every living creature in the world using genetic ‘barcodes’, according to Massey University news. Borrowing … Read more

A computer simulation, designed by an AUT doctoral student, is helping to save the lives of premature babies with breathing problems. Prasika Manilal’s model gained recognition at this year’s MacDiarmid … Read more

An international clinical trial has shown that a head-cooling device developed by New Zealand scientists reduces brain damage in oxygen-deprived newborn babies. The findings, published in the prestigious medical journal … Read more

If students at New Zealand schools boast of helping out US space exploration agency NASA, they don’t have their heads in the clouds. In fact, from early next year, the … Read more

A New Zealand scientist, honored in November by his peers a lifetime of outstanding service to science in New Zealand, has warned that the human race may be facing the … Read more

Decorating the Christmas tree is one of the fun parts of the festive season, but choosing the tree can also be an enjoyable family outing in December. And if you … Read more

Watching too much television as a child has long-lasting effects on adult health, a study by University of Otago researchers says. We found that childhood television viewing was associated with … Read more

A cellphone detector developed by a team of six New Zealand schoolboys has been a runaway success with their first production run already sold out. The boys, students at St … Read more

Two border terriers, being trained by New Zealand’s conservation agency, the Department of Conservation, to sniff out secretive New Zealand geckos and skinks, are raring to go. “There’s a whole … Read more

In August, the full moon will rise twice a single calendar month in New Zealand’snight skies, an astronomical phenomenon commonly known as a Blue Moon. According to Richard Hall from … Read more

New Zealand’s iridescent abalone, known as paua, have long beenprized for their shells and their meat. Now a new industry is growingaround pearls from paua. In the harbor near the … Read more

An Auckland University professor, his students and a research scientist for Fisher and Paykel Healthcare are developing a piece of world-beating technology as yet only available – if you can … Read more

For the next five years, three core areas of science will be the focus of New Zealand’s research in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Interdisciplinary research into Antarctic’s physical environments, … Read more

Harley-Davidson of the future will be lighter and stronger thanks to recent New Zealand research. ION Automotive, formerly Argents Metals Technology, is involved in the manufacture of wheels and engine … Read more

It’s only 15 kilometres from Auckland, but once you are on Motuihe Island,you feel as if you are a thousand kilometres from care. The lucky visitor to the Hauraki Gulf … Read more

To add to another of the long list of woes that being overweight can cause, New Zealand scientists are now adding asthma to the list for some overweight teenage girls … Read more

A revolutionary new technique could soon be helping forensic scientists to resolve criminal investigations by analyzing the bugs in soil. A team of scientists at New Zealand’s government-owned Institute of … Read more

Satellites could be a new weapon to help New Zealand farmers to see how much grass is on their farms, and even predict how fast it will grow. Many important … Read more

It’s truly annoying when an irritating song gets stuck in your head for no reason at all, but there may be nothing for it except togrin and bear it — … Read more

It is time-consuming, behaviourally and developmentally exhausting, and the genetic jumbling involved means that favourable combinations of genes are forever at risk of being broken up. On the face of … Read more

What do you do when your apple trees host codling moth, your plants yellow or your lawn needs top dressing? What about encouraging the very useful worms in your garden? … Read more

If nature is to be believed then spring is near, because one of its harbingers, the Northern Royal albatrosses, flitted into its New Zealand home this month. But the visit … Read more

Photo Competition to Mark Ag Science Centenary To mark a century of agricultural research at the first research laboratory to be established in the southern hemisphere, senior New Zealand high … Read more