Researchers are attempting to go inside the minds of infants to get a baby's-eye-view of the first years of life.

When it comes to birds, the ladies are just as capable of glamming up their style as the blokes are - just only when they need to.

Ensuring our water is clean enough to swim in is a major aspiration of a just-launched charitable foundation to help solve the country's biggest environmental challenges.

A bit of Kiwi ingenuity and an epic road trip will ultimately help a team of scientists understand how Antarctica's vast Ross Ice Shelf might respond to future warming.

Scientists have welcomed news the Environmental Protection Authority is to help clear up the definition of what is and what isn't a genetically modified organism.

The scientist who drove the establishment of New Zealand's first marine reserve has died.

Clergymen attempting to prove claims that a skull found in a Worcestershire church vault is that of William Shakespeare have been thwarted by a senior church lawyer who has barred them from carrying....

In an experiment co-funded by the Korean and New Zealand Governments robots have been given to four elderly Gore patients.

A new documentary will show the moment a marine biologist was bitten in the head by a shark in Fiordland.

A New Zealand bid to establish the world's largest marine reserve in Antarctica is a step closer after China agreed to support the project.

What began as a hobby with dad has developed into an award-winning talent for a Christchurch student.

With two days to go, Massey University answers the hot questions on performance, featuring specialist opinion from across the university

Family members could be kept alive forever virtually so living relatives could interact with their avatars, an academic has suggested.

The same team of scientists that helped rescue a multi-billion dollar industry from the Psa-V virus is now eyeing another huge challenge.

It's understood that the biggest losses would be in the study areas of greenhouse gases and field work.

New findings pave the way for the first medicine to ease the difficulty many autistic children have in interacting.

The critically-endangered Maui dolphin has topped a list of New Zealand's 10 "rarest of the rare" endangered species.

The final sunset marks the coming of summer to the frozen continent, but it will still be far from summer as we know it.

You may not realise how much science and technology surrounds that silver fern as the ABs wear their most technically advanced rugby jersey to date.

The Herald's science writer Jamie Morton on this week's scientific breakthroughs.

New Zealand scientists are getting up close and personal with giant humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean. Geoff Cumming explains why.

Consider yourself a cheese addict? Here's why.

Salmon are dying in unprecedented numbers, and scientists are working to establish whether bacteria never before found in NZ is to blame.

Designer babies is getting closer to reality as scientists in China claim they're the first to use gene editing to create "designer dogs."

New Zealand scientist blames our society for assuming certain roles are more suited to men.

It was absolutely astounding to see kids were able to play more sports and had less wheezing and coughing.

It found that the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has increased and diversity and conservation status of some native species have declined

Women using IVF are a third more likely to develop ovarian cancer, the biggest study of fertility treatment in the world has discovered.

The student was trying to solve Sudoku puzzles. That's when the seizures began.