Washing your hands can also cleanse your brain of old ideas, a new study has revealed.

Biologists told of the worst smells they've faced while conducting field research.

COMMENT: Gwyneth Paltrow is not qualified to look after our health.

If you have a heart attack outside hospital in the future, you could be saved by a drone.

A technique just proven by NZ scientists on fruit flies could one day help wipe out pests.

The huge flying object reportedly burnt up off Auckland's west coast.

Peter Beck has swamped with attention ahead of the World Entrepreneur Of The Year awards.

Why do new words and phrases mysteriously appear in our everyday language?

Drinking just a couple of beers a day can cause problems for your brain, new study finds.

Bug kills about 500 New Zealanders, with Maori, men and the poor at greatest risk.

A name that matches your mug could be an odd secret ingredient to success in politics.

A supercomputing upgrade will give researchers the data-crunching power of 16,000 laptops.

Nasa chose 12 new astronauts from its biggest pool of applicants ever.

The modern humans are roughly 100,000 years older than other fossils of our species.

Where did your science teacher hail from? Hundreds of students are about to find out.

Antibiotic resistance from gonorrhoea is just 'a hair's breadth' away, researchers say.

KELT-9b is 10 times hotter than Venus, the planet that gets hottest in the solar system.

"Where's the money honey," asks one mayor over the cost of preparing for sea level rises.

The T rex pulverised bones by biting down with forces the weight of three small cars.

Factions inside and outside the White House didn't change Donald Trump's mind.

Queensland researchers have found a compound in an Australian plant that halts Zika virus.

By next week, an iceberg the size of the Auckland region could break free.

House-shaking noise still unexplained but evidence points to meteor as the culprit.

A strange character has been fished up from the depths of the ocean.

A former teacher is pushing for more science in schools. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Scientists spot 'super-Earth' planet just 21 light-years away.

Scientists have concluded that the Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved.

Diagonal creases across your ear lobes are said to be a 'classic risk factor' for strokes.

Has cancer finally met its match? Jamie Morton goes inside the immunotherapy revolution.

A range of previous studies have suggested that tumours actually thrive off sugar.