Lessons of the Rena disaster will be passed on to the world with a new training programme on how to deal with wildlife hit by an oil spill.

Labs are renowned for having food-loving personalities and barrel-shaped bodies.

For the first time scientists have observed a slow-motion earthquake unfold deep beneath the sea.

UK law bans labs from growing embryos for longer than 14 days as after two weeks, it is deemed that an individual has started to develop.

The Madagascan Darwin's bark spider gives oral sex to female mates up to 100 times during sex. Its reward? Being eaten afterward.

COMMENT: I learned all our calculations for dealing with climate change could be swept aside by a non-linear event. This could be it.

Humans' use of natural glue dates back to 4000BC.

Star-gazers are enjoying their best view of Mars in a decade.

Intense training amid 35C heat and 80 per cent humidity may sound like hell to most of us, but to elite athletes it could mean all the difference in making it to the podium.

Feel like time is passing you by quicker than ever? Scientists may have discovered why.

ESR Forensics boss Dr Keith Bedford has had oversight of the forensic evidence in virtually every high-profile court case in New Zealand in recent decades.

Being almost too exhausted to write this very article about tiredness is painfully ironic, writes new dad Jamie Morton.

The Earth's climate does change, and over the past 4.5 billion years it has naturally fluctuated between being very cold and covered in ice, to very hot and dry.

The shedding of emotional tears is unique to humans, but our evolutionary, psychological and biological reasons for "crying it out" remain a mystery.

COMMENT: The internet contains a vast store of information which is much bigger than any individual brain can carry - and that's not always a good thing.

COMMENT: Our current system already proves an essential point: robots must be able to disobey in order to obey, writes Matthias Scheutz.

London's first timber skyscraper could be a step closer to reality after researchers presented Mayor of London Boris Johnson with conceptual plans.

Forget everything you know about binge-watching TV. Alejandro "AJ" Fragoso has you beat.

New findings could explain why failures in the control of bed bug infestations are so common.

A team of Kiwi researchers have won funding to help tackle a mysterious protein that conspires against treatment for some forms of cancer.

COMMENT: We believe that random funding is a fair and transparent way to choose between equally qualified applicants, writes Kath McPherson.

An Internet investor has enlisted famed physicist Stephen Hawking to help him with a futuristic plan for seeking life in outer space. (April 12)

Popular geologist and palaeontologist Hamish Campbell has co-written two of the definitive books on how New Zealand was formed.

With no cause and no cure, autism remains one of the most mind-bogglingly complex disorders for researchers to tackle.

Dr Javier Virues-Ortega, director of the university's applied behaviour analysis programme, believes the project will be a pioneering effort to bring together behavioural and neuro-imaging experts to seek out any links or improvements therapies may have had on brain connectivity.

Up to $250,000 worth of scientific equipment might have just been lost with a pair of massive ice bergs which have broken off the Antarctic coastline.

The catastrophic eruption that wiped out the famed Pink and White Terraces may have been triggered by a build-up of magma beneath Lake Rotomahana.

How do you stop cows burping? Or override Parkinson's disease? Jamie Morton celebrates 10 top pieces of Kiwi science and innovation.

Nasa has postponed the launch of its data-gathering balloon from Wanaka because of the weather.