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Payments urged for IVF donations
New Zealand fertility experts are asking whether money could be offered to encourage men and women to donate sperm and eggs for childless couples.
Women told they must man up
Behaving more like men could help women boost their sex lives, eat healthier and stress less.
<i>Rebecca Barry: </i>Digital tsunami drowns life as we know it
Could we be heading towards a future in which technology blurs the line between living and non-living machines?
<i>Sean D'Souza</i>: When the going gets tough, customers buy
Making the customer work for a change.
Britain's oldest house discovered
Archaeologists have found Britain's earliest house, built by Stone Age tribesmen about 11,000 years ago.
Return of the king
Jo Merchant meets the team that's finally revealing Howard Carter's secrets to the world.
Five millennia on, iceman surrenders DNA secrets
The hunt is on to find living descendants of South Tyrol's 5300-year-old mummified man.
Returning traveller found to have new strain of malaria
An Auckland man has become New Zealand's first reported case of a new and aggressive form of malaria that has jumped the species barrier from monkeys to humans.
Vitamin C blocks tumour growth: study
NZ researchers have established that vitamin C can help to block the growth of cancer cells.
Face of 2500-year-old woman revealed
NZ scientists have recreated the face of a 2500-year-old Turkish peasant with technology they hope could be used in court in coming years.
Simple test offers hope for marrow transplants
While a white person has a one in three chance of finding a donor, Asian and black patients have just a one in 125,000 chance.
Police DNA tactics may face probe
Allegations of police targeting Maori youths and improperly obtaining DNA samples may end up before the IPCA.
Police pressured clients into giving DNA - lawyer
Three men gave DNA samples after being threatened with arrest, says their lawyer as the Hone Harawira claims widen.
Study says males exaggerate ills
Research has confirmed what many women have long suspected - men are prone to exaggerate symptoms when they're not feeling well.