Experts blame a combination of a La Nina weather pattern and global warming for the magnitude of the Queensland flood disaster.

What if a DNA reading machine could be fed through a machine, much like swiping your credit card?

A couple so desperate for a baby girl that they terminated twin boys are fighting to choose the gender of their next child.

Smelling a woman's tears can quell a man's sexual desire, a study has found.

Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year.

Scientists from 38 organisations in ten countries collaborated to publish the complete DNA sequence of the woodland strawberry.

NZ's most famous UFO sighting was a moving cluster of bright lights five times the size of a large fishing vessel that dazzled and spooked the occupants of a small plane, files released today reveal.

Thousands of people turned their eyes to the sky for the first lunar eclipse visible from NZ in three years.

A front rolling across the country is set to obscure the first lunar eclipse in NZ skies in almost three years.

Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions is challenging enough. But what if we can't even measure the pollution we're trying to reduce?

The embalmed head of one of the most infamous kings of France has been identified by scientists 400 years after his assassination.

Researchers claim to have found the first proof that getting a regular eight hours' sleep a night can make you appear more attractive.

Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure.