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Focus on future of gene editing
Experts meet in Washington to set out a safe path ahead for technology that could lead to designer babies.
Experts meet in Washington to set out a safe path ahead for technology that could lead to designer babies.
New funding announced helps scientists create next generation baby food that could help stop hungry infants waking during the night.
Scientists have warned that urban nature might not be replaced with museums, but digital equivalents such as images and sound recordings.
That fossil also happened to come from the same deposits as the world's oldest penguin, Waimanu
A study has found teenagers who use websites such as Facebook within 30 minutes of bedtime tend to perform worse than their peers in class.
New Zealand boosted its efforts in the field with the opening of AUT University's state-of-the-art neurocomputing lab - the NeuLab.
With the UN climate talks now underway in Paris, the Herald's science reporter Jamie Morton is talking to a range of experts on climate-related issues.
Honey bees are heaped with positive buzz for their pollinating efforts
Jamie Morton talks to Professor Ralph Sims about how New Zealand might slash emissions in its energy and transport sectors.
The silliest thing about the potential end of our world is it's so boring, people don't care. Who'd have thunk it?
Ahead of the 2015 UN climate change conference in Paris, the Herald's science reporter Jamie Morton talks to the author of a new book about climate change
Delegates from nearly 200 nations are descending on Paris with hopes of finalising a global deal on climate change.
Ahead of next week's UN climate change conference in Paris, the Herald's science reporter Jamie Morton is talking to a range of experts on climate-related issues.
Kiwi scientists have developed a rubber computer keyboard that can flex, stretch, and bounce if dropped.
Farmers should have to exclude nearly all livestock from rivers and streams by 2025, the Government has been told.
A tiny New Zealand snail is threatening a multi-billion dollar sport fishing economy after it was found in the Great Lakes of North America.
In Auckland alone, between 5000 and 10,000 people are predicted to join the Global People's Climate March
Pacific Edge widened its first-half loss, spending more on the roll-out of products across America.
This week, Blue Origin launched an unmanned vehicle called the New Shepherd to the edge of outer space.
Alistair Woodward explains how climate change can affect our health.
Here's why dropping those winter layers might not be going so well.
A cunning new weapon could spell the end for one of our most feared and unwanted pests.
A research agenda focused on tackling the biggest issues facing New Zealand has been praised by the visiting head of one of France's largest research institutes.
Bilingual people are twice as likely to recover from a stroke as those who speak only one language, a study has found.
About half the 15,000 tree species in the Amazon - the world's most diverse forest - are threatened by deforestation, an international study says.
Women are less likely to get top jobs in companies that already have women in senior positions, according to analysis of 20 years of data.
Kiwi natural cleaning supplies company ecostore just switched 98 per cent of its bottled products over to sugarcane HDPE.
Michelle Olbricht assumed her cats Ash and Ellie were home bodies, with little appetite for exploring the world but boy was she wrong.