A Chinese man has had a new nose grown on his forehead. The man, who has only been named as Xiaolian, had the treatment to create a replacement for his original nose which was infected and deformed.

A boy, injured when acid splashed in his eye during a science class, will need up to a year to recover.

Persistent prompting by an Auckland scientist has persuaded the shipping industry to rearrange its schedules, for a whale.

In an emotion-charged ceremony, Rochelle Constantine was one of three inaugural recipients of the Holdaway Awards at the Hauraki Gulf Forum's annual seminar this month.

Life on Earth will continue for at least another 1.75 billion years ... but human life could die out long before.

Human trials of a locally developed Parkinson's disease treatment have begun in New Zealand after the first round yielded promising results.

'Next generation' DNA extraction techniques found no viable material even in samples less than a century old.

Kimberley Jane Dark has made it clear that she doesn't want to be kept alive with a feeding tube.

Scientists are preparing to test a potential therapy for Huntington's disease in sheep that have been genetically modified to carry the mutation that causes the disease.

The painful end of Stephen Hawking's first marriage, and the bitter acrimony of his second, have been described in detail by the Cambridge cosmologist for the first time in his autobiography.

One of the rarest dinosaur fossils could be lost to science when it is auctioned for private sale in November, scientists warned yesterday.

An 11-year-old put Fonterra's light-proof milk bottles to the test.

British business executives, sports stars, celebrities and anyone else with £38,400 ($75,300) to spare will be able to freeze a backup of their adult selves for potential use decades later.

Within moments of sitting down in his office, Prof Richard Faull whips out a human brain, places it on the desk between us and announces, "Here it is," in the manner of someone displaying their most-prized possession.

Just in case you were wondering what the universe is made of, whether ET exists and if something can be done about global warming, cancer and beating bacteria, here's what scientists know ...

The ozone hole over New Zealand is closing, but it may warm up Antarctica which could then affect the West Coast and Canterbury Plains, a university researcher says.

Australian doctors have achieved a world first by helping a woman become pregnant from ovarian tissue grafted into her abdomen.

Scientists are keen to discover what effect the hustle and bustle of downtown Auckland has on those who walk its streets every day.

A sequence of quakes rattling the centre of the country appears to be shifting down the South Island and away from Wellington.

It's 1998 and science is taking big strides. The first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, has just had her first lamb; the first robotically assisted heart surgery has been completed.

There's mounting evidence that the pesticide bombardment of our crops and farms is having a devastating effect on wildlife, writes Sue Kedgley.

Reports of a strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake on the East Cape this afternoon were incorrect, and were the result of a magnitude-6 earthquake some distance from New Zealand.

There's a saying in autism circles that a worried mother does better research than the FBI.

Science writer Matt Ridley once described the human mating system as "monogamy plagued by adultery," which sounds a little judgmental.

Oops, I seem to have accidentally joined a cult. This is disturbing. I don't go to church.