It's a dilemma faced by many new parents: do they get up in the night to comfort their crying babies - or let them sob themselves to sleep?

Way below the water's surface north of the Hawaiian islands, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has spotted a massive creature hitherto unknown to science.

As research has found that wearable health devices are actually only 40-80 per cent accurate.

What can the way we move in crowds tell us about how we might design better cities? Jamie Morton finds out.

Scientists have discovered the answer to stopping stretch marks in their tracks.

Cash boosts for our largest funds for mission-led research have been welcomed by New Zealand's independent government body for the sciences.

Eyes feeling tired? It could be due to the strain of working out, a Kiwi scientist's team has discovered.

Bacon gives you cancer and wine is good for you. Yeah, right.

COMMENT: Research has uncovered decades-long, large-scale fish dumping, now let's work together on correcting this.

Scientists are travelling back more than 60 million years in history to drill deep under the ocean floor in search of clues about the event that wiped out the dinosaurs, and nearly extinguished life on earth. Source: Smithsonian Channel

A major environmental group wants to see more money for conservation funding amid Thursday's Budget announcements.

Scientists have just described one of the most peculiar dinosaurs ever unearthed, all thanks to a chance fossil discovery in the US a decade ago.

COMMENT: The New Zealand wine industry is big business with an estimated annual turnover of $2 billion, $1.42 billion of which comes from export earnings.

COMMENT: Have you ever read a headline claiming some scientific finding that doesn't sound quite right?

A trial has been approved, would you agree to it?

Male nursery web spiders best not show up at a lady's house empty-handed. Because they could get eaten alive for it.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) see the world at night on every orbit - that's 16 times each crew day.

Nasa has successfully launched a super pressure balloon from Wanaka Airport to conduct near-space scientific investigations.

After a period of uncharacteristic bubbling and steaming, Mt Ruapehu's Crater Lake is showing signs of cooling down.

The world's poorest people are suffering more extreme heat driven by climate change while wealthier nations, including New Zealand, remain less affected.

Policy-making is an area laden with risks - some of them with tremendous consequences.

An origami robot that can be swallowed in a pill and sent on missions inside the body promises a revolution in internal treatment of the digestive system.

Over the last week downtown Auckland was filled with long black gowns and stiff mortarboards.

Tagging sharks, walking on volcanoes - science is a lot more than being stuck in a lab. Jamie Morton finds out how some researchers spend their days.

When you sit around imagining life aboard the ISS one thing you probably don't want to think about is a space junk slamming into your vessel.

COMMENT: Too many experts aren't confident talking to the media and feel that stepping into the public arena on controversial issues is a losing game, writes Peter Griffin.

Some of NZ cleverest minds have been singled out in the KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards. Jamie Morton looks at five of the 12 finalists.

It's been one of the warmest starts to the year that New Zealand has ever experienced, but Kiwis should start pulling out their winter woollies.