Alfred Russel Wallace is far from a household name, but he changed the world.

To disguise what it is doing, the Beehive has ordered the Ministry for the Environment to abandon the five-yearly State of the Environment round-up report, writes Neville Peat.

Acclimatising to heat is a tough gig. Since 1970, central Australian regions have warmed 1.2C and as the world continues to get warmer.

If there was any doubt that climate change is the biggest crisis facing mankind, the global groundswell of science being poured into the mother of all research efforts should confirm it.

The face of computer technology is set to be changed by a new tablet computer as thin and flexible as a sheet of paper - but a working version in the shops is some years away.

Recently discovered rumblings deep beneath New Zealand's most threatening fault line have yielded some exciting possibilities.

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.

Children's tantrums, hoarding and skin picking - psychiatrists will soon be looking at these and more in a new light when their official what's what of mental disorders gets a makeover in May.

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.

A gifted academic who grew up in Karori has died suddenly in London, devastating her family.

Three weeks before the ceremony and the [Olympic Stadium] was packed with thousands of people all doing things impressively.

For more than half a century, scientists have postulated the existence of a subatomic particle that creates an invisible force field permeating the cosmos.

Paying it forward - a popular expression for extending generosity to others after someone has been generous to you.

Isaac Newton would be thrilled. London designers Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves have come up with a light that uses gravity to generate enough power to illuminate an LED bulb.

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 .