A study into muscle movements in teen gamers may shed light on links between violent video games and real life aggression.

Dr Jim Sprott, crusading forensic scientist and controversial cot-death and road safety campaigner, has died in Auckland, aged 89.

One of the scientists designing the testing regime for synthetic drugs says trialling novel drugs on humans without testing them on animals first is likely to be considered unethical in NZ.

Tom Pringle has accidentally set his head alight, had a potato cannon explode in his hands and dyed his tongue blue with a mouthful of nasty chemicals.

Stephen Hawking explains why he believes Artificial-intelligence could be the worst thing the human race does to itself - and the last thing it does too.

A Kiwi researcher has helped advance one of science's most intriguing concepts - using our DNA to reveal where we came from.

The damaged hearts of laboratory monkeys have been repaired successfully for the first time with human stem cells.

A scientist is stepping back in time to solve the mystery behind a dramatic drop in the world's most threatened species of sea lion.

It was a bizarre phenomenon that troubled researchers for decades – a mysterious under sea 'quacking' heard every winter and spring in the depths of the Southern Ocean.

Graphene's reputation as a miracle material is well established but scientists have added another attribute to the carbon-derivative's Top Trumps card: you can make it using a kitchen blender.

As members of an elite band of cosmic explorers, they are among the few to have gone beyond the final frontier and looked down on the Earth from space.

Human cloning has been used to create stem cells from adults for the first time, in a breakthrough which could lead to tissue and organs being regrown.

A Taranaki farmer who became the first Kiwi to undergo a revolutionary heart procedure has joined a push for it to be made publicly available.

Amillion-dollar microscope has allowed Kiwi scientists an unparalleled window into the human body, shining a new light on everything from Parkinson's to irregular heartbeats.

Unless New Zealand takes urgent steps to slow the expansion of dairying, many more rivers and lakes will be degraded, writes David Skegg.

A genetic test that can predict menopause - allowing women to better plan when to start a family - could be available within five years.

Throughout history, a select band of the brave has willingly turned into human guinea pigs in the cause of science.

A New Zealand-based biotech firm with links to Barack Obama's re-election campaign manager is moving to North America.

If you want to go on eating regularly in a rapidly warming world, live in a place that's high in latitude or high in altitude.

Auckland is a long way from high earthquake activity and can expect a major shake every 10,000 to 20,000 years, says a new study.

Two University of Otago physics students have pushed the frontiers of quantum technology by helping develop laser-operated "optical tweezers" that precisely split clouds of ultracold atoms and smash them together.

Scientists have used an underwater camera to count large snapper in Hauraki Gulf marine reserves.

Children are being moulded into desired citizens at preschool through government-funded literature focusing on emotions, says an award-winning thesis.

Above us, our nearest, potentially habitable planet is being explored by three spacecraft in its orbit and two on its surface.