Volunteers sought to test if app can help reduce workers' stress.

Tiny tardigrades beat even Keith Richards when it comes to indestructibility.

A Canterbury researcher's work is the first step towards regrowing body parts.

Cheating partner or dreadful in-laws could age your brain by four years, say scientists.

NZ study raises possibility fresh fish oil may aid children of overweight pregnant women.

A Kiwi trial is exploring how Viagra may help underweight babies before and after birth.

Italian Sergio Canavero is poised to do the first human head transplant.

It's possible to tell whether someone's wealthy or not just by looking at their face.

Compassion is eclipsed by a competing desire not to up-end the social pecking order.

Bone-shortening gene mutation may have helped early Homo sapiens survive in extreme cold.

Bone marrow was found to "remember" the effects of exercise long after the exercise ended.

Neuroscientists explain why your significant other incites the most rage in you.

Scientists will tap into the DNA data of thousands of young people in major new study.

Health risk claims about baby formula brands are "irresponsible", an NZ scientist says.

Texting on the move turns your gait into an ungainly lollop, scientists have found.

How long can humans actually live for? The truth is, scientists say, we just don't know.

Noisy cities disrupt heartbeat and could trigger disease, study suggests.

Has science just given credence to sci-fi film Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind?

NZ scientists have made a surprise genetic finding that could help combat drug resistance.

If you have a heart attack outside hospital in the future, you could be saved by a drone.

Drinking just a couple of beers a day can cause problems for your brain, new study finds.

Bug kills about 500 New Zealanders, with Maori, men and the poor at greatest risk.

A name that matches your mug could be an odd secret ingredient to success in politics.

Where did your science teacher hail from? Hundreds of students are about to find out.

Antibiotic resistance from gonorrhoea is just 'a hair's breadth' away, researchers say.

The T rex pulverised bones by biting down with forces the weight of three small cars.

Diagonal creases across your ear lobes are said to be a 'classic risk factor' for strokes.

Has cancer finally met its match? Jamie Morton goes inside the immunotherapy revolution.

A new work-out suit, the world's thinnest hologram and crackly crust.

An alternative to costly IVF brings new hope to couples who are struggling to conceive.