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.

European space engineers hope to carry out carefully programmed manoeuvres over the coming hours and days to rescue the Philae lander from its precarious position on the comet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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....

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