An Auckland-based doctor's ground-breaking research - involving lab-cultivated, living, beating heart cells - could land a blow against a major killer of Kiwi children.

Scientists create a prototype for a 3D bio-printer that is capable of printing functional human skins.

The hormone kisspeptin essentially switches on the desire to reproduce and is thought to be responsible for the sexual appetite of young people.

Kiwi scientists have helped gauge the power of a promising new drug to treat a rare, fatal disease in children.

Think twice before using your toothbrush... it's covered in millions of different germs - including faeces.

Inside a remote desert facility, hundreds of human bodies lie frozen in capsules, each waiting for their second life to start.

If you've ever noticed how the music of our charismatic tui is much more impressive when heard in the bush, you're not mistaken.

A new Kiwi study will attempt to reveal what happens to our brains when we take anti-depressants - and whether these intriguing changes can be easily measured.

Kiwi scientists have published another study exploring links between concussions suffered while playing rugby and long-term impacts on brain function.

Astounding collection of stories where injury creates a genius.

COMMENT: Ditch the post-partying detox diet and let your incredible intrinsic cleansing system do the work it was made to do.

Fog harvesting, floating dairy farm and smog towers... Andrew Stone outlines some clever and inspiring innovations that we might hear a bit about in 2017.

Women diagnosed with breast cancer could get a clearer prognosis with a new model built from the data of thousands of New Zealand patients.

Kiwi scientists are exploring the mysterious role the bugs inside us play in regulating our diet and metabolism.

She's not a hypnotist, but she can convince you that you're a criminal or were traumatised as a child. Elizabeth Loftus has ways of making you think.

A recently-discovered cannabis-like substance naturally produced by our brains could play a role in treating Parkinson's disease.

A new study calls to expand our understanding of how a woman can be aroused.

How narcissistic are Kiwis?

Retraining the brain to beat stress is the key to losing weight and keeping it off, a leading Australian neuroscientist says.

A brewery is promising the best beer of your life thanks to a personalised test using your DNA.

Clinics in Britain can now apply to create three parent babies after the fertility watchdog gave the final approval for the procedure.

An international team of scientists have found an odd and slightly gross explanation for sticky, glowworm-made "fishing lines" that hang in the famous Waitomo Caves - urine.

Tests on brains of 3-year-olds can reveal who is likely to become part of the minority of adults to use the biggest share of social services, says study.

Researchers have found that some of what we see in the periphery - the areas just outside our eye's direct focus - could be a visual illusion.

COMMENT: We've recently been supported by a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund grant for a project called: What is the Southland accent?

A million-dollar Kiwi study has revealed a new mechanism in the body that could offer new hope for those with a genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes.

Children learn new words using the same method as robots, psychologists say.

A man with advanced prostate cancer is believed to be cured after doctors 'shocked' his tumour to death.

Android users are more honest than iPhone users, researchers have found, in a study revealing what our choice of smartphones say about us.

COMMENT: Free online calculator will allow couples to prepare emotionally and financially for their chances of conceiving using IVF.