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The T-shirt you can't stain
A student has invented the answer to your problems - a T-shirt that is impossible to stain.
A student has invented the answer to your problems - a T-shirt that is impossible to stain.
Computer giant's motto is 'Don't be evil', but some worry that tech purchase brings allure of defence contracts.
Three inexpensive sunscreens sold in supermarkets have come out tops in Consumer NZ testing.
As hardy perennials go, there is little to beat that science hacks' favourite: the hard-wiring of male and female brains.
Cognitive development research is, like its subjects, still in its infancy, but it seems that our tiny tots are a lot smarter than science once gave them credit for. Angela Saini reports on the latest evidence — and argument — from the baby labs.
Asteroids like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs on Earth could have shot life to Mars or the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, US scientists have said.
NZ Science Media Centre staff and their Oz counterparts put together their 10 top picks for the world's biggest science stories of 2013.
Adults' rate of smoking has declined to 15 per cent in the latest census, down from 20.7 per cent in 2006.
The oldest known stone javelins have been discovered in Africa, predating humans by 80,000 years.
One of the world's leading earthquake scientists has called on New Zealand to adopt cutting-edge technology that could give people as much as 25 seconds' warning.
New Zealand's cute pukeko, known for its colour both in plumage and personality, has been shown to have a power-hungry, aggressive streak - quite literally.
Kiwis are being encouraged to become citizen scientists to check the health of their own lakes, rivers and streams.
A gene linked to obesity which makes ice cream and sugary foods tastier for girls has been discovered by scientists.
Dame Anne Salmond has become the first social scientist to win the country's highest science and technology honour.
Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond, the current New Zealander of the Year, has been awarded the country's highest science and technology honour.
Kiwi researchers will play a star role in one of the biggest and boldest scientific projects in history - the construction of the world's largest radio telescope.
Last week, microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles won the Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize.
Astronomers call it the monster. It was the biggest and brightest cosmic explosion ever witnessed. Had it been closer, Earth would have been toast.
DNA extracted from the arm bone of a child who died in southern Siberia about 24,000 years ago has shed light on the origins of the first people to colonise the Americas.
Kiwi scientists are combining leading cancer drug therapy research with cutting-edge computer modelling to create a simple system that could speed up the development of treatment agents.
It's been one of the mildest flu seasons in 20 years, but the young, elderly and Pacific Island and Maori people are still at serious risk from the flu.
Drug-resistant "superbugs" represent one of the gravest threats in the history of medicine, leading experts warn.
Scientists have discovered possibly the earliest signs of life on Earth - remains of bacteria that are almost three-and-a-half billion years old - in a remote region of northwest Australia.
For years, scientists have been dogged by this evolution question: Just where did man's best friend first appear?
They call him Blinky - a tiny freshwater crab fished out of the Hoteo River on the Kaipara Coast that's made a splash around the world this week, thanks to its three eyes.