Kiwi scientists are set to unlock a secret history of the Pacific Ocean using tropical corals thousands of years old, in an $800,000, world-first study.

A gadget only a little more high-tech than your average waterproof watch will play a key role in a study assessing New Zealand's best surf breaks.

A campaign calling for cleaner lakes and rivers has been launched this summer, as monitoring data shows many spots across the country remain unsafe for a dip.

Days of widespread rainfall might have washed out the holidays for summer campers, but for farmers in many places it's been merely a drop of what's needed to replenish drought-parched soils.

If I had been given one wish as a child, it would have been that the Tasmanian tiger wasn't extinct. To me, extinction was a tragedy.

Drones, the source of that new low buzzing sound coming from your local park, were one of the most popular tech Christmas presents this year.

Paul Charman is on his way to Campbell Island to investigate the legend of a Scottish princess abandoned there long ago

The Irish are descended from early Middle East farmers and from bronze metalworkers on the steppes around the Black Sea, scientists have found.

Average penis size revealed: Scientists attempt to find what is 'normal' to reassure concerned men.

It seems some of us have more holiday cheer than others, which raises the question about whether Christmas spirit actually exists.

In the year 2000, the CIA commissioned a report on what global trends will be in 2015. Here's what they got right and wrong.

SpaceX is heading back into orbit today - with an ambitious attempt to land its reusable rocket on land.

Your nearest psychopath might be your father-in-law, your boss, your financial adviser or even that guy your daughter is thinking about dating. Just who these people are, how many there are in our society and what helps them blend in are questions that have inspired a Waikato University researcher to launch a major project.

Your nearest psychopath might be your father-in-law, your boss, your financial adviser or even that guy your daughter is thinking about dating.

The fear of technology are not helped by a continuing epidemic of artificial intelligence (AI) and robophobic screenplays emanating from Hollywood.

Painkillers work by blocking enzymes everywhere in the body, not just in the area causing pain.

As the world's largest consumer electronics show, CES 2016, draws closer, rumours and predictions run rife.

Imposing minimum prices for alcohol is likely to help some people who are dependent on it to cut down their drinking, say the authors of a new study.

In the final days of the Paris talks, officials walked a diplomatic high wire as the pact's fortunes rose and fell.

The Super City's dormant volcanic field -- made up of more than 50 craters -- is expected to erupt again from a new site within the next few hundred years.

Laurent Fabius was directly involved with the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, now he's the world's foremost climate negotiator.

Just thinking about death triggers odd behaviour, shows research.

As diplomats in Paris began one of their last days to ink a climate treaty, something symbolic took place on the Bloomberg Carbon Clock -- the real-time estimate of the atmosphere's CO2 level.

Two passionate members of the New Zealand Antarctic Society are bound for Antarctica today.

Scientists claim that for the first time, they have programmed a machine to learn in the same way as humans.

Experts have found that being handsome can actually impede a man's professional progress.

Scientists just can't agree on whether video games will save you or kill you.

Not every aspect of climate science is completely resolved, and here are five questions that are guaranteed to get the experts going.

A crack along the Antarctic ice is making its way towards an isolated research station, threatening to plunge the scientists into the frozen seas.

What happens when you bring together close to 200 nations for one of the most pivotal summits in history? Organised chaos.