The hottest year on record globally in 2015 could be an average year by 2025 and beyond if carbon emissions continue to rise at the same rate, new research has found.

Scientists will reconstruct more than 20,000 years of NZ's ecological history to better understand how our species will respond to climate change.

COMMENT: Short messages - what makes Twitter Twitter - are inherently conducive to insults, ill will and degraded discourse.

Ultra-sensitive fibre-optic sensors extending nearly a kilometre below the Southern Alps will transform what we know about one of the biggest earthquake threats facing New Zealand.

A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using Facebook is associated with living longer - when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world social ties.

Struggling to remember passwords for everything from online banking to internet shopping is a curse of the modern world.

First it was the Note 7, now Samsung has announced a formal recall of 2.8 million top-load washing machines.

COMMENT: Juha Saarinen weighs in on the new MacBook Pro 13-inch.

Kiwis are set to be treated with the most spectacular "supermoon" since 1948 - if bad weather doesn't hide it from us.

New Zealand cooperatives - particularly those in Wellington - have a lot to offer under-developed countries.

A business claiming it is "backed up" by MediaWorks is taking on Sky and entering the streaming box market.

Dementia sufferers could be monitored with online tracking devices which would record every move they make, say UK scientists.

Auckland University chemical scientist Dr Erin Leitao, searching for what could be the next wonder-material, has been honoured with a major award. Leitao, who just received the 2016 New Zealand Fellow of the L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science programme, talks about her work.

A Japanese designer has revealed a world map which shows landmasses and oceans as accurately as possible.

The GCSB is facing questions over further illegal spying - but the evidence to clear or convict is incomplete or missing.

A group of Māori and indigenous information technology innovators are gathering in Hastings today and tomorrow to network and

Some big brand employers have got behind a campaign to get 500 young people into jobs in 50 days.

Research to find new Earth-like planets, clean up our waterways and boost our health have just received $65 million from the Marsden Fund. We look at 10 of the best.

A new high-speed ground transport system with its sights set on Australia's east coast could form a giant megacity between two capitals.

Social media has been flooded with people mourning the death of the peach butt emoji.

With rain that would feel like 'death by a thousand cuts' this planet would be terrible to visit.

What happens to the social media accounts fronted by outgoing US President Barack Obama after the election?

One crafty female from China has performed the ultimate hustle to raise funds for a home deposit.

A fitness app created in Tauranga has built up a following of 30,000 users in the UK and US markets and just won a major award from

By now, you've probably seen some of your Facebook friends "checking in" to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation - here's why.

COMMENT: Elon Musk showed off some rather visionary technology: the Solar Roof, writes Juha Saarinen

Tim Young is not your average 28-year-old - he has a Master's degree, owns his own home, has launched a company and is now building an app.

Drones and GPS-tracking dummies are being deployed at Kiwi beaches to boost our understanding of the country's deadliest rips.

Apple's latest MacBook Pro range will require $392 worth of dongles if you want to use an SD card or HD cable.

Science reporter Jamie Morton talks to GNS Science earthquake geologist Dr Rob Langridge about a renewed effort to catalogue a nationwide web of active faults threatening New Zealand.