Parents who stumble over their words need not worry - it may even help their children learn to talk.

Manuka honey, the premium product found on fashionable breakfast tables, could play a role in the battle against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, scientists reported yesterday.

Research and development business specialises in NZ's key crop - grass.

A new gel developed by researchers in Australia and New Zealand will aid healing and eliminate scarring for millions of people undergoing nasal surgery around the world.

There's a new player in science communication that has emerged across the Tasman.

It's been an exhausting week for members of the Charlatan Society.

Crime shows such as CSI: Miami have brought forensic science to the masses.

The moon's got nothing to do with it. Unless it does. Which it may. Perhaps. We just don't know. It's a bit like having lucky numbers for Lotto.

New Zealand is good at doing small, complex clinical trials. We are reasonably priced, we have robust ethics oversight and good researchers.

New Zealand researchers have shed new light on the phenomenon which causes black holes to explode.

With so many ways of storing data, are we forgetting how to remember? Not according to US writer Joshua Foer, who reveals new and remarkable strategies for memorising. By Robin McKie.

If you can be sure of one thing, then surely it is that you exist. Even if the world were a dream or a hallucination, it would still need you to be dreaming or hallucinating it.

A "supermoon", which looked larger and brighter due to its proximity to the Earth, has been all around the world.

Research debunks the theory that "newer" genes are less essential to our survival than more established ones.

The Prime Minister's chief science adviser today hit out at earthquake forecasters such as Ken Ring, saying no one can predict when a quake will strike.