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.

A new leadership programme focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) at Auckland's Otahuhu College is inspiring its young students.

More than 840,000 Kiwis caught the flu last year - and three quarters of them would never have known it, a study has found.

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.

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.

The country's first rocket company is now almost clear to launch, after the Government signed off on the contract.

There's now a version of Aotearoa in space, with the International Astronomical Union (IAU) formally approving the name "New Zealand" for an asteroid.

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.

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.

COMMENT: Misinformation is counterproductive in battling dramatic decline of species in Auckland Islands.

You may want to think twice the next time you invoke the five-second rule for food that's fallen on the floor.

Great Barrier Island: a remote gulf paradise we associate with lush forests, deserted white sand beaches and - this weekend - aliens.

Nasa launches first ever mission to take samples from an asteroid in the hope of preventing the space rock colliding with Earth later this century.

The Pope's astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno, is visiting Great Barrier Island today. He talks to science reporter Jamie Morton about faith, science and little green men.