Launched last year to huge fanfare, a new study reveals its effects.

Scientists discover what makes skin cells age.

Google-owned Boston Dynamics has revealed 'Atlas', a robot designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. The robot has LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain, help with navigation and manipulate objects. This version of Atlas is about 5' 9" tall and weighs 180 lbs.

"Surprise meteor shower" in New Zealand sparks hunt for unknown ice ball orbiting in space.

There may be a silver lining to all that misbehaviour.

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It's good news for chocolate lovers.

Recent research into happiness reveals some intriguing patterns.

Scientists have turned to an intriguing place to source cheaper, more efficient energy - blazing-hot magma kilometres below the ground.

A sense of 'alarm and panic' is being felt at the Pacific Climate Change Conference as rising sea levels threaten small nations.

Scientists have probed more than 100m beneath Orakei Basin in a bid to reveal the explosive history of ancient Auckland.

A revolutionary cancer treatment that remembers the disease and remains like a watchman to prevent it returning is being developed.

Why has one of our largest endangered bird species just become two new ones?

"How does taking a bath among native bush and listening to the sound of tui, kaka, woodpigeon and morepork appeal?"

Student and surfer Debbie Remnant says her project to understand surfing injuries is a "real passion".

The latest big quake comes after more than 15,000 others, most of them too weak to be felt, in an aftershock sequence triggered by the 2010 Darfield earthquake.

Well-known atheist and biologist has been forced to cancel his upcoming New Zealand tour due to health problems.

As news of the biggest scientific breakthrough in recent times broke today, a retired Bay of Plenty resident sat down and read the headlines with excitement.

As news of the biggest scientific breakthrough in recent times broke early this morning, a retired Bay of Plenty resident sat down and read the headlines with excitement.

The discovery of gravity waves could "revolutionise astronomy", says Professor Stephen Hawking.

The announcement that gravitational waves have been directly captured for the first time, from the collision of two black holes, opens a new age of astronomy, writes Dr David Wiltshire.

After decades of effort scientists have succeeded in detecting gravitational waves from the violent merging of two black holes in deep space.

Scientists announced Thursday that, after decades of effort, they have succeeded in detecting gravitational waves from the violent merging of two black holes in deep space.

The hotly-anticipated confirmation of "ripples" wiggling through the fabric of space-time would be one of the most important discoveries of the past century: NZ physicist.

Like a zombie, the Milky Way galaxy may already be dead but it still keeps going.

Scientists have found a long-awaited explanation as to why humans have for centuries maintained orderly societies: the fear of an angry god.

Does learning to walk and talk early signal academic excellence in adulthood?

Heart disease kills more people in New Zealand than in most other OECD countries, according to a recent international OECD health report.