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.

The impact of volcanic eruptions on global warming could provide a new explanation for the so-called “pause” used by sceptics to deny climate change, scientists say.

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.

Scientists have finally come up with an explanation for a visual illusion that was first identified in the 16th century by Galileo Galilei.

This week we profile five of the expedition's members, starting with Shelley Campbell, CEO of the Sir Peter Blake Trust.

The final portion has been raised to build oceanographer Jacques Rougerie's gigantic, solar-powered, floating aquatic observation vessel.

"Bionic man is not far away". That's the assessment of World Anti-Doping Agency director-general David Howman as his organisation.

'Wow, this guy's a whopper,' said experts of a 1.5m monster jellyfish that washed up on a Hobart beach last month. So what does its sting feel like?

Research by an Otago University geology student has uncovered a strange pre-Ice Age world where primitive porpoises and baleen whales roamed the North Pacific alongside comparatively modern marine mammals.

If your body was laid bare to the alien environment of Mars, the vacuum of space would boil every fluid in it, then freeze-dry your remains.

The flight of the bumblebee - once thought to be aerodynamically impossible - has proven to be even more scientifically astounding than previously believed.

Tony Abbott's administration has been accused of being the most conservation-hostile in living memory.

Dairy giant Fonterra is calling for government laboratories to be better equipped to identify bugs in food, after finding E.coli bacteria in its fresh cream.

It's taken more than 50 years but the deepest cave system in the Southern Hemisphere has been found - in New Zealand.

Researchers are encouraged by the early findings of a major NZ study to find a better way to treat an aggressive form of breast cancer.