An icebreaker is expected to reach a stranded Antarctic research ship with six Kiwis on board late tonight.

A New Zealand scientist stranded on board a ship stuck in thick pack ice in Antarctica has reassured family back home that all is well.

Can exercise during pregnancy combat obesity in your baby? And could it help offset the so-called "fat gene"?

The lines of thousands of love poems and songs may have to be rewritten, according to Professor Alain Carpentier.

DNA taken from the 50,000-year-old toe bone of a Neanderthal woman has shown that she was highly inbred.

A student has invented the answer to your problems - a T-shirt that is impossible to stain.

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.

Plastered across posters and T-shirts, inspiring a play, and named by a popular blog site as word of the year, "munted" became the catch-cry amid Christchurch's post-quake devastation.

Auckland University team heads first research on giant mammals' ability to sense sound waves of prey.

The oldest known stone javelins have been discovered in Africa, predating humans by 80,000 years.

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.

It's common knowledge that Australia gets too many of our best brains and skilled workers - but are we getting their wind-borne bugs?

Astronomers call it the monster. It was the biggest and brightest cosmic explosion ever witnessed. Had it been closer, Earth would have been toast.

Last week, microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles won the Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize.

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.