Researchers want to hear from serial sex cheats and others with trouser-trouble, to deepen their understanding of what they call "hypersexuality".

Rays that cause skin cancer also make New Zealand sauvignon blanc unique, according to new research.

Genetically modified cows were born with ovaries that grew so large they caused ruptures and killed the animals.

An apparently healthy man has become the first person in the world to be prescribed a medicine based on an analysis of his genome.

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.

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.