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.

Mark Orams will research mammals on the Blake expedition to the Auckland Islands.

In his last months, Sir Peter Blake spoke of something alarming happening in his familiar Southern Ocean.

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.

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.

NZ researchers have helped to shatter a common assumption about how trees grow, finding that larger, older trees keep bulking up and can be "star players" at sucking carbon from the atmosphere.

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.

New Zealand scientists have spent six years updating a seminal map of Antarctica completed by colleagues 50 years ago, and they hope it will help to unlock the degree and impacts of climate change.

I marvel at each scientific discovery but what concerns me is the scorn applied to humanities study these developments have induced, writes Bob Jones.

Vitamin D supplements provide little - if any - health benefits, a study shows.

The leader of the ill-fated Australasian Antarctic Expedition has apologised for the inconvenience caused to rescuers, while authorities estimate the bill could reach $2.6m.

Kiwi scientists who helped to pinpoint the 'microchip' in our brain that can control fertility are now working on the next crucial piece in the puzzle - how to influence it.

A humanoid robot, which resembles the classic character from Lost in Space, has become the first of its kind to hit the New Zealand market.

A colony of ants have set up home in the International Space Station as part of an experiment to see how their behavior changes in an environment of low gravity.

It has been "sleeping" quietly in space for more than two and a half years.

Prostate operations become safer and painless with more accurate, powerful device.

Does working in a high-rise building or spending a lot of time downtown expose you more to dust-borne bugs?