It's midnight, you've been trying to sleep for a couple of hours and you're still sweaty and awake. Sound familiar this summer?

A popular muscle-boosting dietary supplement could also be used to protect our brains, New Zealand scientists have found.

Dramatic geothermal landscape of Waimangu volcanic rift valley a miniature Mars for space buggy inspired by next robotic rover Nasa plans to land on red planet.

Fat supplies found in a woman's thighs and buttocks are needed to develop babies' brains, scientists have claimed.

It's being described as a war, an arms race, an unseen struggle where the stakes are being raised and the weapons redefined each minute - the war a faceless cyber-criminal.

It IS rocket science - and Auckland-based Rocket Lab has about 35 jobs to fill as it shoots for it s first flight at the end of the year.

China has presented its highest award for foreign researchers to a renowned Kiwi scientist who helped change the face of the country's farming systems.

A NZ scientist is heading a project that uses stem cells grown from patient skin samples to study the process of the incurable and fatal motor neuron disease.

Nearly 40 years after the first IVF birth, scientists are still unsure of the long-term effects of their laboratory Beginnings. Helen Massy-Beresford reports.

The goodness in supermarket staples such as milk, yoghurt, cheese and cereal could soon be supercharged thanks to Kiwi-developed technology.

Auckland brothers, aged 3 years and 10 months respectively, both have a muscle-wasting genetic disorder with no cure that could claim their lives as early as their twenties.

Further volcanic eruptions have disrupted more flights to and from Tonga this evening.

Artificial arteries designed like gun barrels could revolutionise heart bypass surgery and save health services millions, researchers claim.

Hundreds of robotic instruments deployed across the South Pacific have begun to reveal dramatic new insights into the impact of climate change upon oceans in our corner of the world.

A dramatic new image has emerged of the volcanic eruption which has disrupted air travel to and from Tonga.

Coconuts and their many benefits have been endorsed by everyone from Madonna to Harry Belafonte - but there’s much about the tropical wonder-fruit we still don’t appreciate.

Hundreds of travellers and holidaymakers have been left stranded after flights to and from Tonga were cancelled yesterday because of a huge volcanic ash cloud.

Like anything, cricketers are looking for an edge and the most common way to do that is through bat technology.

The first new antibiotic to be discovered in nearly 30 years has been hailed as a "paradigm shift" in the fight against the growing resistance to such drugs.

A state-of-the-art laboratory near Franz Josef Glacier is being packed up after an ambitious drilling operation came to a premature end before scientists could bore through the high-risk Alpine Fault.

New Zealand's Lake Tekapo has been ranked one of the best spots in the world for stargazing.

Eight new planets have been discovered orbiting at a distance where oceans and life could exist - and two are the most similar to Earth found to date.

A Kiwi-led research breakthrough could see defective genes replaced with custom-designed DNA - a move that would combat hundreds of different diseases.

Losing our native species is not an inevitability but a choice - and one that could hurt New Zealand in more ways than we realise.

Holidaying star-gazers this week have the chance to observe a huge chunk of ice and gas hurtling through the night sky faster than a speeding bullet.

If your New Year resolution is to be happier, make your priorities fruit, nature, sun and sleep.

1976, young microbiologist Peter Piot was sent to investigate an outbreak of a mysterious virus in a remote part of Congo, he could never have predicted how it would change his life.