Kiwi are likely to be lost from mainland New Zealand "within our grandchildren's lifetimes" and without continuing intervention could be extinct within 50 years.

New Zealand-founded LanzaTech has been named the world’s hottest bioenergy company in a prestigious annual list.

Kisspeptin has now been found by New Zealand researchers to play a key role in moulding the male brain just hours after birth.

The maxim that it's not what you eat for dinner, but who you share it with, now has scientific credence.

Imagine being able to peer deep below your own skin in 3D - and without even having to break the surface.

People living in hardship are more likely to believe in moralising, high gods, according to a major new study co-authored by New Zealand researchers.

Within a few days, scientists will manoeuvre Europe's £1 billion ($2.1 billion) Rosetta spacecraft directly above a massive ball of ice, dust and organic chemicals called Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Ghostly apparitions have been produced by scientists in a mind experiment so disconcerting for participants that two begged for it to be stopped.

Scientists from one of the world's leading institutes of tropical medicine, which first discovered the Ebola virus in the 1970s, flew out to Guinea yesterday to begin ground-breaking research into a possible cure.

The first ever academic study of state snooping in New Zealand is among 101 research projects to win grants in this year's Marsden Fund round.

The latest international report on climate change has been released and its findings came as little surprise.

It might seem the stuff of science fiction, but a mind-reading device is being developed by scientists which can eavesdrop on your inner voice.

A husband and wife team could help change the way products as common as car tyres are made by recycling chemicals from greenhouse gases.

Two genes have been identified that may be partly responsible for extremely violent crimes.

Making lessons relevant and suited to students' shortened attention spans are some of the reasons why young women are flocking to chemistry lessons at one school.

Sir Ray Avery's revolutionary baby incubator has been designed with the best of Kiwi ingenuity, the Auckland scientist and inventor says.

Changes to the Southern Ocean's sea ice belt could mean see the global level rising several metres, says a new study which has shed more light on an ice-age mystery.

They clumsily bang against our windows and make themselves a springtime nuisance - but the humble bumblebee could prove more valuable to New Zealand's economy than we ever imagined, researchers....

A newly-discovered type of quake below the east coast has heaved the North Island closer to Chile - but only by the length of a pineapple lump.

They’re loveable, cute and raise caring families with their mate for life, right? Wrong. A new book busts the box-office myths.

An expert has detailed what he believes to be the first warning signs of schizophrenia, and changes in the type of language people use could be first clues.

Struggling to tell faces of other races apart may have more to do with perception than prejudice, a Kiwi researcher says.

The National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC) says its pleased to see a drop in the number of animals used for testing and research.

A glorious blood moon delighted skygazers in many parts of New Zealand last night.

A team of 100 scientists and engineers has begun drilling a 1.3km-deep borehole into the Alpine Fault to gather information about the inner workings of the fault line.

Rogue waves - mountainous swells that form at sea without warning - have been blamed for countless maritime disasters.

The protein that prevents Antarctica’s fish from freezing solid also means they spend their lives carrying hundreds of ice crystals in their bodies, a NZ scientist has found.