A corn infection that US farmers have spent millions trying to eradicate, is in fact packed with unique proteins, minerals and other nutritional goodies, tests have found.

Results from the pig-cell trial so far indicate improved control of blood-sugar levels and reduced need for insulin injections.

The US will be a hitch-hiker on other nations' space programmes, writes Gwynne Dyer.

Images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, which NASA claims is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun.

It is not a completely far-out scenario that the genetic sequence of all newborn babies may one day be collected by default, writes Dita De Boni.

Medical researchers have begun to elucidate the complex role of genes in human health.

Shark expert Vic Hislop denies he paid thousands for a monstrous hammerhead which is now in a freezer while he decides what to do with it.

Scientists have been given permission to put human genes into goats, sheep and cows for the next 20 years.

A Kiwi inventor has won the award for best brainwave at an international gadget fair in the United Kingdom.

Writer Peter Nowak starts his survey of technology by linking war, porn and fast food - the idea surfaced after he saw the lurid sex tape of Paris Hilton.

As negotiators are stalled in a deal to unite Cyprus, forensic experts are helping to bury the ghosts of a bloody conflict.

A NZ great white shark is believed to have set a world record for deep-sea diving, plunging to 1.2km below the surface on his way to Brisbane.

The Large Hadron Collider set a record for high-energy collisions on March 30, 2010 by crashing proton beams into each other at three times more force than ever before.