Technology developed in New Zealand is being sold to overseas research labs.

In research and development, it’s often taken for granted that teams require a certain critical mass to be successful

It's promoted as beneficial to mum and baby, but a major Australian study has found no noticeable effect among women who took fish oil capsules during pregnancy.

Scientists are hailing a breakthrough that could lead to a cure for the common cold.

Four tagged monarch butterflies out of 15,000 have flitted back to the suburbs they were bred in this spring.

No area of medicine has advanced more rapidly, nor created more controversy, than the treatment of infertility.

Taking big risks in the hope of high rewards may be a fundamental part of our biological nature, the pigeon study has shown.

Scientists have shown what many dog owners have suspected - while some canines are joyfully optimistic about life, others have a tendency for gloomy pessimism.

A review of the weight loss drug found the risks to patients outweighed the benefits, Medsafe's principal clinical advisor said today.

Hal Herzog, one of America's foremost psychologists, is dedicated to understanding our often contradictory behaviour towards different species.

The cause of the mysterious decline of the honey bee in the United States - and elsewhere in the world - may have been found.

Those intense over-powering feelings of being truly, madly, deeply in love are the result of complex and rapid brain activity.

Australian scientists have found a unique way to grow a precious and life-saving type of stem cell, likened to putting a "cat on a sofa", in the lab.

Archaeologists have gained an unexpected benefit from global warming.

The search for a planet that could support life has found the most promising candidate to date.

Four University of Otago researchers are believed to be the first to isolate and photograph the Rubidium 85 atom.