The foremost scientific body of Ni'Var, the reunified world of Vulcans and Romulans, which examined Paul Stamets's theory about the origin of the Dark Matter Anomaly.
The Ni'Var Science Institute is the principal centre of research on Ni'Var in the thirty-second century, and heir to the scientific traditions of old Vulcan.
It appears in the fourth-season Discovery episode Choose to Live. Paul Stamets travels to Ni'Var with Cleveland Booker to argue before the Institute that the Dark Matter Anomaly is a primordial wormhole. Its scholars point out that such a phenomenon would leave tachyons, which the sensor records do not show.
To settle the matter President T'Rina joins minds with Book, the only witness to the destruction of Kwejian, to search his memory for signs he may not have consciously noticed. None are found and the theory is set aside, though the experience helps Book face his grief.