One of New Zealand's top researchers is calling on fellow scientists to see that their work is nominated for major science awards this year.

A landmark partnership between Japan and New Zealand scientists will help better understand the threat that tsunamis pose to our country.

Vegetarians rejoice! Researchers at Oregon State University have patented a new strain of succulent red marine algae that tastes like bacon when it's cooked.

Dwarf planet's icy mountains are equivalent of ten-and-a-half Sky Towers stacked on top of one another.

Nasa release amazingly detailed photos of Pluto - and there's a surprise: youthful mountains rising high above the dwarf planet's icy surface.

Ellie is a virtual human created by scientists at the University of Southern California to help patients feel comfortable talking about themselves so they'll be honest with their doctors.

What have drones got to do with native plants? Quite a lot actually. And science reporter Jamie Morton will tell us why.

A 15-year-old British boy has developed a potential test for Alzheimer's disease that could allow the condition to be diagnosed 10 years before first symptoms appear.

While we share travel photos and life musings with a long list of virtual friends, the average person still only relies on a few people.

After giving scientists a heart attack at the weekend, Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft seems to be recovering.

We celebrate the winners of this year’s Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards by profiling a Blake leader each Monday. Today's Blake leader is Dr Michelle Dickinson aka Nanogirl.

Kiwis can now use a beer byproduct to fill their cars, with a new biofuel being unveiled at an Auckland service station today.

A scientist who has just overseen a sprawling nationwide bird count is keen to find out exactly why a chilly early winter has brought more feathered visitors into our back gardens.

Austrian scientists have come up with a method that allows calculation of the time of death even after ten days.

A rogue robot has killed a technician at a car factory in an accident with chilling overtones of a science fiction movie.

Researchers from the University of Vermont are the first to make a connection between eye colour and alcohol dependence.

Scientists have uncovered fascinating new insights about the commuting habits of Antarctic killer whales.

Can you hold light with tweezers? Well, in a way, yes, University of Auckland scientists have found.

Scientists have found a way to read the mind, analysing brain waves and interpreting them as words and even complete sentences without having to listen.

A condom that changes colour when it comes in to contact with sexually transmitted infections (STI) like chlamydia and herpes has been invented by teenagers.

Our country will next week offer international scientists a unique window to a quick and rare astronomical event that last occurred a decade ago.

A lamb genetically modified to contain a jellyfish protein has entered the food chain in France, plunging Europe's top agricultural research institute into crisis.

The last 50 years of gains in development and global health could be undone by the “medical emergency” that is the threat of climate change to human health, scientists said today.

When is our next big bang? That's the explosive question a team of scientists are going to try to answer.

University of Otago researchers joined almost 200 scientists from around the world to head out to take marine samples as part of the second Ocean Sampling Day yesterday.

Earth has entered its sixth mass extinction with animals dying out at 100 times the normal rate, scientists have warned.

Pig cells are behind a new treatment which could help those living with Parkinson's disease combat its dramatic and sometimes debilitating effects.