NZ researchers appear to be gearing up for a new bid to win over consumers before the first applications for release of GE pasture species.

IVF clinics are using a radical male infertility treatment too often despite the long-term risks to the babies conceived, one of the technique's pioneers says.

Researchers at Columbia University found happier people were less likely to develop serious heart problems.

The aroma of your steak frying may set your tastebuds tingling - but it may also give the chef cancer, especially if they are using a gas cooker.

Scientists have found that people who inherit two copies of a particular DNA variant show the biological signs of being about eight years "older" than people of the same age who carry neither genetic variant.

Millions of people who strive to keep fit by jogging, swimming or going to the gym are wasting their time, scientists say.

The worlds of climate change and steamy sex collide ... and a classic is born.

Scientists have succeeded in reading the mind of a man thought to have been lacking all awareness after a traumatic head injury.

Scientists have for the first time found powerful evidence that genius may be linked with madness.

Medical journal's editors retract paper 12 years after it was published, saying several of its elements are "incorrect".

Ancestors of NZ's extinct flightless bird, the moa, probably flew here from South America and then lost the ability to fly home.