A doctor from Sierra Leone with United States residency infected with Ebola may travel to the US to be treated for the deadly virus, medical officials say.

Angela Merkel is delivering a lecture to about 260 people at Auckland University's Maidment Theatre.

The latest wearable sensor technology from the University of Auckland will be combined with mechanisms that enable movement provided by Franhofer Institute.

Soon after modern computers evolved in the 1940s, futurists predicted that machines would be as smart as humans. The consensus now is that it's going to happen..in just a few decades.

Our native wildlife could one day enjoy a New Zealand free of the predators that threaten them, one of the country's foremost scientists believes.

A team of scientists drilling deep into the South Island's high-risk Alpine Fault have been intrigued to encounter unusually high temperatures just several hundred metres below ground.

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.

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.

Science = good (very good, if supporting the government = political point-scoring). Annoying science with expensive ramifications = bad, writes Dita De Boni.

More than $55 million has been awarded to our smartest researchers for projects. Science reporter Jamie Morton looks at 10 grants made this year.

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.

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

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.

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....

1. Bacteria: friend or foe?

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.