With so many ways of storing data, are we forgetting how to remember? Not according to US writer Joshua Foer, who reveals new and remarkable strategies for memorising. By Robin McKie.

If you can be sure of one thing, then surely it is that you exist. Even if the world were a dream or a hallucination, it would still need you to be dreaming or hallucinating it.

Scientist says that exercise is the key to mental fitness.

It may be boring for parents - but reading the same book over and over again to children is the best way to develop their vocabulary.

If travelling to a new home might take thousands of years, would humans be able to successfully procreate along the way?

What if a DNA reading machine could be fed through a machine, much like swiping your credit card?

A couple so desperate for a baby girl that they terminated twin boys are fighting to choose the gender of their next child.

Researchers claim to have found the first proof that getting a regular eight hours' sleep a night can make you appear more attractive.

You can sequence your own genome for $10,000 USD - and it will only take around eight days to complete.

Where would the world of childbirth be without those uninhibited European women who feature so prominently in birthing videos?

An Otago University study has challenged the idea that depression and anti-social behaviour are primarily influenced by genes.

Good-looking couples are more likely to have daughters than plainer parents, according to a study.

Organs and bones were illegally harvested from the bodies of dead nuclear industry workers.

The many genes that influence body weight can interact in a complex and unpredictable way that sometimes defies scientific explanation.

A Wellington company's use of sheep gut in reconstructive surgery exposes it to a multi-million-dollar market.