On the surface, the second planet from our sun should be uninhabitable.

Researchers to trial approach used in corporate world to help parents with 'screen-agers'.

Animal psychologist Alex Taylor has shown how kea can co-operate to solve problems.

"By 18 months, children expect individuals to take what that they deserve."

Exhibitions open since 1998 at Te Papa are closing for redesign.

Sportsmanship has gone by the board due to the win-at-all-costs philosophy of Ocker land.

EDs seeing new wave of ultra-potent synthetic drugs are being invited to join new effort.

Fans have long known supporting their team through thick and thin can come at a cost.

Three years after his wedding at placid Lake Tutira, Jamie Morton asks if it can be saved.

One of the world's biggest environment groups is taking a keen interest in New Zealand.

Incorporating plantain into grazed land found to reduce release of greenhouse gasses.

After our La Nina-fired summer, there's a chance spring could bring a meddling El Nino.

Ancient kauri trees are helping us understand how forests might fare in future droughts.

Cate Macinnis-Ng is climbing huge kauri trees in the name of science, studying the impact of droughts caused by climate change on this giant iconic species. / Supplied by Aotearoa Science Agency

Warmer weather could make us prone to more foreign, disease-carrying mosquitos.

Prime Minister Jacinda Adern to honour outstanding Pacific youth

The chick attracted attention for its speedy trek up the coast of the South Island.

Beware your bath time companion. Research finds it's likely riddled with bacteria.

Maori, Pacific Island babies with a rare heart defect are less likely to survive.

A Kiwi scientist's odd sperm-racing campaign could help save NZ's threatened hihi.

Does looking at this burger make you hungry?

COMMENT: Our faces change in colour depending on how we are feeling.

After genetic analysis of the little mummy scientists have concluded its place of origin.

Dr Fiona Cross went from terrified arachnophobe to committed arachnologist.

A Dutch expert in sea-level-rise mitigation shares some lessons for flood-prone Aotearoa.

Crucial clues about the contamination of our coasts may be hiding in an unlikely place.

One of the world's most complex pest-eradication projects makes the Antipodes mice-free.

COMMENT: As weather gets worse, writers need to step up.

Kiwi experts urge people not to dismiss self-driving cars as unsafe after US road tragedy.

Scientists film spectacular underwater action of the huge mammals beneath the sea ice.