COMMENT: Yes, alcohol awareness campaigns like Dry July can work, but not for everyone.

COMMENT: Sharing information can cut congestion and save travel time.

Why do some people find some foods yummy while others find the same foods taste yucky?

Can losing your sense of smell make you lose weight?

Bone-shortening gene mutation may have helped early Homo sapiens survive in extreme cold.

Only "matter of time" before last-resort gonorrhoea antibiotics will be of no use.

Bone marrow was found to "remember" the effects of exercise long after the exercise ended.

Watch this incredible little boy recite the periodic table and name countries on a map.

Two Waikato University researchers discuss what Kiwis think about climate change.

Talented teen's liberty turtle tops high-school section of international art contest.

Horseshoe crabs have survived four mass extinctions, but humans could wipe them out.

Educators don hard hats and hi-vis jackets for tour of industry sites in Whangarei.

Why do 2,000-year-old Roman piers survive, yet modern concrete seawalls crumble?

Neuroscientists explain why your significant other incites the most rage in you.

Hawking said Trump's action could lead to "temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees".

Scientists will tap into the DNA data of thousands of young people in major new study.

A Kiwi scientist have used high-tech cameras to watch bats as they hibernate.

Electric vehicle owners being recruited for project to boost uptake and busting myths.

Texting on the move turns your gait into an ungainly lollop, scientists have found.

COMMENT: The shape of an egg boils down to how good a bird is at flying.

How long can humans actually live for? The truth is, scientists say, we just don't know.

Climate change could help native species but also allow invasive species to gain foothold.

Strange sea creature known as "sea pickles" invading US coastline.

Sir Peter Blake's former schooner is making a well-timed visit to Auckland this weekend.

Sun heading into a solar minimum, during which activity at the surface will "change form."

New habitats may open up for wildlife in warming Antarctica leading to some epic battles.

Nasa's Curiosity rover has snapped a photo of a mysterious object on the surface of Mars.

Scientists believe they have discovered the secret formula for a winning grin.

Computing becomes part of the core curriculum.

Scientists find new threat to recovery of "ozone hole" just as it finally begins to heal.