Patients write fears away
A group of patients having major operations will be asked to write about their deepest, most troubling thoughts to see if this helps their surgical wounds heal faster.
A group of patients having major operations will be asked to write about their deepest, most troubling thoughts to see if this helps their surgical wounds heal faster.
10 years ago, it was said we might have no bananas in 10 years, and experts say the logic remains as valid as ever.
A genetically modified salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first GM animal in the world to be declared safe to eat.
Temperatures in the western part of Antarctica are rising almost twice as fast as previously believed, adding to fears that sea levels will rise.
Three weeks before the ceremony and the [Olympic Stadium] was packed with thousands of people all doing things impressively.
A gifted academic who grew up in Karori has died suddenly in London, devastating her family.
For more than half a century, scientists have postulated the existence of a subatomic particle that creates an invisible force field permeating the cosmos.
It is quite likely we will one day create a machine - a robot, if you like - that can "think" faster than we do, writes Gwynne Dyer.
Religious faith undoubtedly has the power to inspire, although in many cases it seems to inspire irrational acts of hatred and violence.
Images from a murder scene are beamed straight to a laboratory, and jurors are given a virtual "tour" of a scene, allowing them to get up close .
A British chemist believes helium balloons should be banned to save the scarce resource.
As soon as she took a bite of the fish caught and prepared for her by some Fijian locals, Amanda Austrin knew something was wrong.
A New Zealand woman has spent more than 30 weeks in hospital and cannot eat properly after she was poisoned while eating fish during a dream holiday in Fiji.
Two scientists speaking at a major freshwater conference have described reversing the fouling of New Zealand's waterways as our largest environmental problem.
I lost my virginity in my second year at university. Freak eh? It makes me quite the deviant in today's sexy-and-you-know-it world.
Manufacturers of party pills could be prevented from testing their drugs on animals if they cannot prove it is worth the pain they could potentially cause.
A shark that swam from New Zealand to Fiji has returned home for Christmas, rounding off an 11,000km odyssey and amazing the scientists who tracked her journey.
Editorial: Russel Norman is absolutely right to say that scientists must be free to perform their academic duty to report environmental degradation.