135 years ago today, Albert Einstein, one of the world’s most influential physicists was born in Germany. Today, in celebration of his birthday, we share 10 of his most enduring quotes.

The humble radiata pine might not seem an obvious target for millions of dollars of research and development.

European humans have become "whiter" in the past 5,000 years, undergoing a distinct change in their DNA due to natural selection, according to scientists.

The control room for the crippled No 1 and No 2 reactors is coated in pink plastic sheeting. The lights on the monitoring panels are all out.

Warm, wet weather spanning several decades helped one of history's most fearsome tyrants to conquer most of Asia and Eastern Europe.

Caroline Little isn't scared of earthquakes. She has found herself beset by them for much of her life.

A UK scientist who linked old mining operations to serious floodwater contamination in Wales has begun a similar investigation in the Hauraki Plains.

Oxygen-deprived babies born with brain damage could make miraculous recoveries thanks to research that aims to help prevent the injury spreading.

It's been called the poor man's teleporter, based on the fictional Star Trek invention that beamed humans on to hostile planets and reassembled them, molecule by molecule.

A look into how some of New Zealand's biggest volcanoes erupted hundreds of years ago could help predict lava flows for future eruptions.

From the steaming banks of Lake Rotomahana, watching a man hanging off the side of a boat and dropping a strange yellow object into the water may seem an odd sight.

Scientists have uncovered an infectious giant virus that had been entombed in Siberian permafrost for 30,000 years.

The pillars that form Stonehenge may have been chosen because they were like sacred "prehistoric glockenspiels", according to researchers.

There's no signpost to say you're nearing New Zealand's subantarctic islands, but a welcome that's a little more dramatic.

Ears and noses could be grown in a laboratory and transplanted into humans using a technique developed by British scientists.

A future where our elderly have faithful robot servants to look after them might be closer than we think, with the Govt offering researchers new cash to push the concept forward.

A gem found on a sheep ranch in Australia has been found to have formed 4.4 billion years ago - making it the oldest piece of our planet ever recorded.

How do you stop truckloads of unsaleable food from going to the dump - and turn it into something useful? Put a few thousand piggies in the middle.

There's been plenty of news lately about sinkholes. What exactly are they - and why do so many seem to be opening up around the Earth?

One day in the 1980s, a scientist took a bizarre phone call about a sheep in Canterbury that couldn't stop having triplets.

Most couples will testify that their sex life plummets on the birth of a new baby, with new mothers often worrying that they are no longer attractive

Using advances in genetic science, a small research team are testing whether it is possible to make an evolutionary loophole work to the advantage of pest control.

They call him 007 because he gets the job done - and for this feathered little thinker, doing so was quite the task.

Crisis shows the value of taking a scientific approach to agriculture.

Digging deep into Rangitoto Island has begun to reveal the explosive secrets of Auckland's youngest volcano - and the risk the city could face in future eruptions.