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

Is climate change the greatest modern threat?

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.

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.

You can sequence your own genome for $10,000 USD - and it will only take around eight days to complete.

The 2010 Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and chemistry received their prizes in Stockholm last night.