Several myths about hypnotherapy were exploded during a talk yesterday by Dunedin social worker and certified hypnotherapist Karen Hughes, during Brain Awareness Week.
One of the world's leading medical researchers and science communicators, Lord Robert Winston, will visit Dunedin today and speak to school pupils and University of Otago postgraduate students.
About 90 people, including one visitor from the United States, converged on Allanton, in East Taieri, for a Ralston family reunion at the weekend.
A 38-year-old Waipori Falls man was flown to Dunedin Hospital by the Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter after he accidentally shot himself in the foot with a shotgun shortly before 10.40am on Saturday, police said.
A heated honeymoon disagreement resulted in a newlywed Indian tourist couple being escorted from an Air New Zealand flight at Queenstown Airport on Saturday.
Australia is within its legal rights to discriminate against New Zealanders working there, but its moral position is much shakier, Prof Mark Henaghan says.
Powerful scientific technology has helped University of Otago researchers to show that some of the likely ancestors of Polynesians were eating fruit bats and chickens in Vanuatu 3000 years ago.
As debate continues about possible new designs for the New Zealand flag, people can still experiment with new flag-related ideas using an internet site dreamed up by University of Otago researchers.
University of Otago researcher Andrew Clarkson says New Zealand should ''declare war'' on strokes and strengthen related research, after successfully cutting the national road toll.
University of Otago researchers have helped solve the great disappearing hydrogen gas mystery.
Establishing a $3 million research station on the Auckland Islands will benefit New Zealand through a better understanding of the likely impact of climate change, researchers say.
Heritage campaigner Ann Barsby has ''gone out on a limb'' to save a rare 19th-century worker's cottage near the Dunedin Gasworks Museum but her action could come at a big personal cost.
A memorable display of the Southern Lights seen in the skies over Dunedin last week could be repeated as early as this evening, scientists say.
Growing problems with the Southern District Health Board's ''ageing infrastructure'' and the negative effects of population-based funding were highlighted at a public meeting yesterday.
The University of Otago Brain Health Research Centre has joined forces with the Otago Museum to offer a ''Brain Awareness Week'' at the museum, starting on March 10.
An innovative electronic textbook project, led by University of Otago academic Dr Erika Pearson, has sparked interest from people in a dozen countries.
This week's failure of the Southern District Health Board's computer system is ''an opportunity disguised as a disaster'', which the whole New Zealand health system can learn from, Associate Prof Hank Wolfe says.
A series of talks by Otago Museum director Dr Ian Griffin is boosting the museum's public profile.
Adults wanting to try something a little different during their next trip to the Otago Museum can learn more this week about one of the world's most baffling maritime mysteries.
Powerful new diagnostic tests for early identification of prostate cancer will be available within three to four years, University of Otago researcher Dr Elspeth Gold predicts.
