Pigeons get a bad rap for coating city squares with droppings and otherwise making themselves a nuisance - but thanks to Kiwi research, no one can now call them dumb.

It wasn't long ago that school projects were completed by students referencing an encyclopedia source that they could quote in their bibliography.

The East Coast Lab has been launched to research New Zealand’s least understood subduction zone, the Hikurangi Trough. Made with funding from NZ on Air

Researchers have fitted tracker tags on queen bumble bees in a quirky new study that could see the furry insects becoming big future pollinators in orchards.

We've all had that feeling that somebody is watching us - even if we're not looking directly at their eyes.

A study into the DNA of Aboriginal Australians has shed new light on when their ancestors left Africa.

A Mt Albert Grammar School student suspected of having the mumps has triggered a warning to parents to keep home children not immunised against the disease.

The 1500-year-old Israeli scroll has been revealed to contain versus from Leviticus.

New research explains intriguing clues about African exodus, says Kiwi scientist.

Researchers are calling on GPs to be more responsible in prescribing a common topical cream that could have contributed to a soaring rate of skin infections

Methane frosts that shift with the seasons, a massive glacier and craters of gas, Pluto is a fascinating planet.

Scientists reveal how 5300-year-old corpse met his end - and that the 'iceman' called Otzi had 61 tattoos.

A fight is brewing over the product labelling and health claims of the Australian dairy industry's most bitter rivals.

An engineer involved with the Rosetta spacecraft says he's excited about the prospect of seeing it crashed into a comet.

A meat-eating parrot, a sucker-faced eel, a bat that pees on itself and a spider that catches fish. Here's our pick for New Zealand's 10 weirdest species.

This week is International Drive Electric Week, a worldwide event to raise awareness of plug-in electric vehicles.

Scientists have disproven the idea that it's okay to scoop up food and eat it within a "safe" five-second window.

Organisers of the annual Great Kereru Count are hoping there won't be any shortage of people keeping their eyes peeled for our quirky native wood pigeon over the next week.

Scientists are now confident White Island's latest eruptive episode has come to a close.

A check for invasive aquatic pests around Auckland's Westhaven Marina has been postponed after the dive team happened upon a slightly bigger foreign marine organism: a visiting leopard seal.

Tool use is rare in the animal kingdom - but a nearly vanished species of Hawaiian crow has mastered it.

It's hard to dodge sugar because we have no idea about how much added sugar is in the food and drink we consume every day, a new report finds.

Scientists create offspring without a female egg, which could eventually pave the way for a baby to be born from DNA of two men.

Aussie scientists have developed an exercise pill that tricks the body into responding as though it's been to the gym.

A Japanese study reports: "We conclude that large earthquakes are more probable during periods of high tidal stress."

A new study has raised extraordinary possibility that humans may be able to put themselves into a kind of hibernation state - but in a way that hurts us.

Japanese researchers believe they may be closer to predicting an earthquake, but it hasn't come without criticism.

Two dolphins have been recorded for the first time having a conversation.

The science behind why humans find this bad habit so rewarding.

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