A new web app called WordsEye can translate a few lines of user text about a scene into an artistic image using artificial intelligence.

Currents are shifting, temperatures are climbing and the availability and dynamics of nutrient upwelling is changing.

Scientists investigating the rising spread of drug-resistant bugs in our homes have thrown up a hairy potential culprit: our pet pooches and moggies.

A team of Kiwi scientists has set its sights on finding a safe and effective treatment for a group of rare but severe diseases.

Jamie talks to Paul Young of youth advocacy group Generation Zero about what climate change means for our young people.

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

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.

Jamie Morton talks to Professor Tim Naish about the major part the frozen continent has in the picture of climate change.

Ahead of the UN climate change conference in Paris, the Herald's science reporter Jamie Morton is talking to a range of experts on climate-related issues.

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

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.

You might think that it would take genetic engineering to give a worm the head and brain of another species. You'd be wrong.

Jamie Morton talks Dr Andrew Tait, principal climate scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmosphere, about the basics of climate change.

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.