A chimpanzee has been filmed using tools to apparently clean the corpse of another chimp.

Crowd-sourcing new ideas from fans has built Lego a solid future.

A top educator says streaming children into top, middle and bottom classes is steadily dragging down Kiwi students' learning.

A new smartphone app allows users to check Auckland's air quality at any given time.

Unnecessary prescriptions could lead to serious long-term consequences.

Our alpine parrot may be much smarter than we think, scientists say.

The killer whale was likely the same one that stranded in Whangarei Harbour last year.

By better understanding how our brains work, can we change how we feel pain? A world-leading Kiwi neuroscientist, back in New Zealand, talks to science reporter Jamie Morton.

Nasa are testing the engines of the world's biggest rocket set to launch in 2018.

New findings suggest poison, not cancer or faulty glands, did in the author of Sense and Sensibility.

The impact quakes can have on city structures has been made frighteningly clear over recent years.

A new study blames as much as half the decline in Arctic sea ice over recent decades on natural causes.

MPs are expecting furious opposition to proposals on fluoridated drinking water as public hearings kick off this week.

The power-packed storm meteorologists have dubbed the "Tasman Tempest" dumped more rain on Auckland than typically falls for the whole of March.

A sinkhole in New Lynn could be bigger than it looks. So what causes them? We asked an expert.

NZ is not only a beautiful country on the ground but it also looks incredible from the sky.

Researchers crunched the numbers on your ride.

A Kiwi researcher is set to peer inside the minds of porn users.

Brilliant moment as BBC expert's live interview is gatecrashed by his curious children.

Scientists have created a brain-based music machine that can exploit your emotions to the point that you'll cry.

Knock on the head the perception that brilliance belongs to boys.

Kiwi conservation secrets are being lent to Australia to help protect one of the world's rarest birds from extinction. The Norfolk

Scientists have put a recent spate of Central North Island quakes down to long-term tectonic "stretching" rather than worrying volcanic activity.

Scientists analyse a Neanderthal's microbiome for the first time and find differences in what they ate.

A scientist reveals tips on how to reboot civilization after the apocalypse.

From beer brewing to computer software, here are 10 inventions created by women.

Kiwi scientists have found an intriguing new way to control individual atoms.

Kiwi scientists just helped reveal how newly-understood genes are likely to play a role in our bodies.

US politician and neurosurgeon Ben Carson reckons one zap can help your brain with total recall.

A 29 per cent chance of a big "surface rupturing" quake within next 50 years.