The image has gone viral after thousands were left astounded by the unusual revelation.

High-flying DNA company has been sold to a US-based business.

What will a tech-disrupted future mean for your job? A new report explores four scenarios.

It's being touted as a low-emission wonder for NZ's energy future. What is green hydrogen?

How we value the fruits of our labour over instant gratification.

Moa DNA expert Prof Michael Bunce follows controversial tenure of Dr Jaqueline Rowarth.

Photos taken by holidaymakers in Antarctica were used to tag mammals.

It turns out there's an exact middle of Middle Earth. Artist Billy Apple just marked it.

Smokers have better chance of quitting by using nicotine gum and patches at the same time.

Forget practising - a rest might be your best way of learning.

Award-winning Tauranga mathematician to be made Royal Society Fellow.

A sweeping audit has revealed an environment under attack from virtually every direction.

Comment: Medical research is something which is incredibly important to me.

Aerial 1080 drops have proven key to the survival of kiwi chicks in a North Island forest.

Scientists pull together most comprehensive picture yet of NZ's largest geological threat.

Even a moderate amount of red and processed meat raises risk of bowel cancer, study says.

The risk of an overflow at NZ's rowdiest volcano appears to have cooled, scientists say.

There are bees which happily feast on human tears – and blood, sweat and dead animals.

GoT could help us understand why reliably recognising others is an elusive art.

Working with cat owners, not against them, key to finding solutions that work.

Ugliest corners of internet couldn't stand the fame for a woman in a male-dominated field.

Compared to dogs, research on cats and cat behaviour is light.

Findings change what we know about the "out of Africa" story at roots of modern humanity.

Kids from troubled homes struggle later - but in spite of poverty some beat the odds.

"You could see the entire array of webs just slightly float in the air - it was amazing."

Study finds males can be "well-adorned or well-endowed, but it's hard to be both."

Today's image proves the theory of rotating black holes he found 56 years ago.

It's beautiful. It's profound. But it's not very detailed, is it?

'We have seen what we thought was unseeable,' said the head of the team of scientists.