A young woman was seen moving towards police with a knife before officers fired two shots in a fatal shooting outside a Sydney fast-food outlet.

The sharp decline in honeybees has been linked to changes in foraging behaviour brought on by stress, a study has found.

The researchers believe their findings could help in the battle to curb the world's growing obesity problem.

Bag full of priceless mementos from the most famous space mission of all found stuffed in a closet by Neil Armstrong's widow.

'It went whack and he was thrown in the air.' A Japanese surfer killed yesterday when both his legs were bitten off by a shark was a 'great guy', friends say.

Kiwis travelling to the Pacific are being warned to take all measures to avoid mosquito bites - as the number of people returning with viruses continues to increase.

“He lost both his legs," says a local after a killer shark apparently came out of nowhere and attacked a man off a NSW beach.

Gisborne Police and the Fire Service had not received any call outs for damage related to the earthquake.

Former director of Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre Jim Kennedy spent almost 40 years with Nasa. The retiree now travels, speaking on leadership.

'Eat butter. Scientists labelled fat the enemy. Why they were wrong" was the headline on a Time magazine cover last year.

Kiwi scientists have found a curious new way to combat obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in an antioxidant linked to Chinese medicine.

Rain forecast for this week is unlikely to offset a soil-parching big dry that has put much of the country at serious fire risk and begun to hurt farmers in hot-spot areas.

Chemical changes in DNA can help us understand people’s “biological age” - a measure of how old their body is that seems to be able to predict when people are going to die.

We tell 10 lies every week — but what’s the reasoning behind so many untruths, asks Olivia Goldhill.

Eleven great white sharks have been spotted at a single site in the Kaipara Harbour - the largest concentration of the species yet seen in the upper North Island.

Cutting-edge laser technology that can quickly build a 3D model of a crime scene will bring new clarity to New Zealand courtrooms.

A new laser that can build a 3D colour image of crime scenes will bring new clarity to New Zealand courtrooms.

Being a teacher doesn't just mean losing your patience with unruly pupils - it can also mean losing your voice.

There’s always one in a crowd, a person mosquitoes seem to target more than others. What is it about these unlucky chosen few that makes them mosquito magnets?

Hopes of finding water-based life in our galaxy took a leap forward after five Earth-sized planets were found around a distant star.

People who live beside Auckland's Southern Motorway are subjected to air pollution at nearly double the level of those 130m further away, research shows.

Scientists believe the genetic profiles of cats contain crucial clues about diseases to which humans and felines are both susceptible.

The humble golf ball is possibly the most mistreated object in all of sport.

NZ researchers have created a machine with the potential to accurately predict strokes, help the paralysed to move and to perform Jedi mind tricks.

Series of photographs taken over 10 years reveals huge changes to one of New Zealand’s most famous landmarks.

A giant doorway to another galaxy may exist at the centre of the Milky Way, a study suggests.

Nearly all fish oil supplements marketed in NZ contain much less of the brain-boosting omega-3 fatty acids than their labels claim.