The drug shows promise for babies whose growth is stunted due to issues with the placenta.

COMMENT: When a population dips below several thousand, it likely to become extinct.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

White Island's crater lake has reappeared, as quakes detected at the island and Ruapehu.

NZ-led research leads world a step closer to combating emissions from sheep and cattle.

A series of volcanic earthquakes is stirring beneath Mt Ruapehu.

Sustainable and profitable farming were showcased at gala awards evening.

Research submitted two weeks before he died revealed how we can detect other universes.

Something odd is happening beneath South Atlantic. It's so bad, it's killing satellites.

Before Scientology's first lady disappeared, a young woman died in odd circumstances.

Eat sugar and fat, get fat? There's much more to obesity than that, writes Jamie Morton.

Nasa has found that life away from planet Earth has exacted a surprising toll.

Other people's stress may change our brains in the same way that our own stress does.

COMMENT: There are many reasons why pregnancy could negatively affect oral health.

A group of young Kiwis have helped make new discoveries in NZ's Kermadec Islands.

Scientist never shied away from challenging theories.

Stark warning issued by Professor Stephen Hawking in the months before his death.

850 tonnes of mud and sand flushed away seafloor life in Kaikoura Canyon.

Scientists tracking young yellow-eyed penguins awed at one intrepid bird's 470km hike.

"He was brilliant and was one of the top scientists in the 20th Century."

The world's great scientist since Einstein, Professor Stephen Hawking, has died, aged 76.