'We're confident at some stage it'll wake up again.' The Philae lander has been quiet since sending back initial photos, but sunshine could revive it.

NZ's world ranking for R&D spending continues to drop, according to a report by Grant Thornton, which puts NZ near the bottom of the table.

A symposium being held today at Massey University will discuss the potential "de-extinction" of NZ birds, with the huia sitting at the top of the list.

The Government is pouring $139m into 48 of NZ's most promising research programmes. The projects, if successful, will benefit a range of NZ businesses.

DNA samples from an exceptionally well-preserved extinct Mammuthus found in Siberia, have raised the prospect of cloning.

Snow-capped Mt Taranaki stands out in this view from space in a new book.

It’s pitch black and Kina Scollay is in a cage at the bottom of the ocean as huge shapes emerge from the darkness.

An intelligent arm brace adding extra muscle by flexing, as we do, will be created in a landmark German-Kiwi collaboration.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.