With a pending World Health Organisation report on the effects of mobile phone usage on the brain, the evidence so far is pointing to good news. However, much is still unknown.

A NZ surgeon who helped separate conjoined twins says none of the complications they had allowed for materialised.

Impact of tsunami on Auckland would be widespread but not deadly.

American scientists swooped over New Zealand yesterday to take measurements of greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.

Barack Obama has a vision of a fundamental US energy makeover, moving from fossil fuels such as coal and oil to renewable sources including solar and wind.

I'll never forget the moment I arrived at Auckland airport from South Korea about 15 years ago.

A massive iceberg spotted southwest of New Zealand by scientists working on Macquarie Island could be moving closer.

70 million-year-old prints are the first dinosaur footprints recognised in New Zealand and the first evidence of dinosaurs in the South Island.

AgResearch plans to grow genetically modified grass created to cut the greenhouse gases produced by cows.

We invented the commercial bungy and, arguably, the aeroplane, but a recent study suggests New Zealand is struggling to keep up in the invention stakes.

Study shows only granddaughters are likely to benefit from having their paternal grandmothers involved in their early lives.

Tasmanian police found only one piece of forensic evidence at the crime scene: a leech, engorged with blood.

A woman was thrown out of a meeting on the North Shore's beach poisonings when she hurled objects at a Department of Conservation speaker.