
Keeping tabs on players' hard knocks
The rugby party continues as we welcome home the All Blacks with their newly- engraved Webb Ellis cup.
The rugby party continues as we welcome home the All Blacks with their newly- engraved Webb Ellis cup.
The spuds Matt Damon's stranded astronaut Mark Watney grew in The Martian may be closer to science fact than science fiction, say Kiwi and Australian researchers.
Researchers have developed a protein-based drug that offers a potential breakthrough treatment for those with severe brain and spinal cord injuries.
The potential hand of climate change in one of the worst storms ever to hit Northland has been revealed in a new study.
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.
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.
The phenomenon of 3D printing has given us printed guns, printed cars and printed hamburgers - now it might have ushered in the age of printed hair.
One of my favourite events of the year took place this week and I was lucky enough to be involved again for the fourth year running.
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.
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.
What began as a hobby with dad has developed into an award-winning talent for a Christchurch student.
The same team of scientists that helped rescue a multi-billion dollar industry from the Psa-V virus is now eyeing another huge challenge.
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.
How did thousands of possum tails end up littering State Highway 1?
The Herald will be travelling to Antarctica this summer to meet Kiwi scientists investigating what the frozen continent has meant for our past and what it might mean for our future.
The Herald's science writer Jamie Morton on this week's scientific breakthroughs.
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.
New Zealand scientists are getting up close and personal with giant humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean. Geoff Cumming explains 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.