The annual Wacky Racers' event is being held in Christchurch tomorrow.

The brain is truly a marvel. But is there a point where it reaches capacity? In other words, can the brain be "full"?

Kiwi inventor Sir Ray Avery is getting help from dozens of artists around the world to raise money for lifesaving baby incubators.

Sir Peter Gluckman has spent a lifetime in laboratories, but his biggest breakthroughs took place over a pint of cold beer at the pub.

Her alter ego's name, "Nano Girl", was coined by schoolchildren but top scientist Dr Michelle Dickinson may be more of a superhero than she gives herself credit for.

New Zealand has three new dames, three more knights and one appointment to the Order of New Zealand in the Queen's Birthday Honours announced today.

Winter is coming in an actual sense, in that winter is coming. I know this because the TV weather people are using the term "polar blast".

Killer robots being developed by the US military "will leave humans utterly defenceless", an academic has warned.

University of Otago PhD researcher Hazem Zohny has warned about myths and "hype" involving so-called "smart" drugs.

New Zealand could today be facing even higher rates of skin cancer had the world not agreed to rein in ozone-depleting substances nearly 30 years ago.

Forget The Bachelor - it's a tiny crab that takes the cake for the ultimate act of courtship.

Hundreds of scientists have rallied against a new Japanese proposal to kill whales in the name of research — a plan one New Zealand marine biologist calls whaling in disguise.

For most of us, it's a tough ask to draw a link between somewhere as warm as Bangladesh and as chilly as Antarctica.

Thousands of men with advanced prostate cancer have been given new hope of a cure after scientists discovered the genetic cause behind 90 per cent of tumours.

Scientists discover genetic background to disease - and treatments are already available.

The Government is fronting up $25 million to kickstart new privately led provincial research institutes.

Feminists have debated it for decades, but scientists have finally got to the bottom of why men still exist.

A new study suggests that the love hormone, oxytocin, has similar effects to being drunk, and not just the more pleasant aspects of inebriation.

Bioprinted human skin has been on the scene for some time but cosmetics company L'Oreal is hoping to get into the game.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that two major earthquakes of the same type hit central New Zealand in the past 1000 years.

Alcohol may also make us more empathic and cause us to see other people as more attractive. Why do these reactions occur?

Scientists create a yeast that can turn sugar into opiates, then call for urgent regulation of the technology.

The 7.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal on May 12, just weeks after the devastating 7.8 magnitude event, should be classed as an aftershock rather than a second earthquake.

A Kiwi inventor has made cars glow in the dark.

One of New Zealand's most spectacular tourist destinations could also provide a key to better understanding the large-scale changes in store for the planet.

What could Nigel Latta possibly know about science, the weighty subject that seems to be his cosy new home on telly. Quite a bit, actually.