Auckland's mayor is ready to up the pace for action on the transformation of the city writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Support will be needed from tech firms to bring this unique, ambitious project alive.

Non chemical spray innovator sets its sights on overseas markets

Women who take the Pill tend to choose as partners men who are less attractive and worse in bed but who are a sounder bet for a relationship.

Local bio-fuels company Lanzatech is accelerating its path into the aviation fuel market by partnering with a Swedish company to convert ethanol to aviation bio-fuel for Virgin Atlantic and Boeing.

Is scientific 'weird stuff' the answer?

Researchers have been finding new medicinal possibilities in some common food enhancers.

Britons are becoming more sexually adventurous, with fewer defining themselves as 'straight', research has found.

Smell-O-Vision was meant to stink – and it did. Here are 20 extraordinary ideas that didn't quite make it from prototype to production line...

American research has topped up the theory that a tipple a day is good for your health - but some New Zealand academics are no longer swallowing the idea.