A needle winds up in your strawberry. How do we find out how it got there?

COMMENT: So-called diet drinks, which use artificial sweeteners, replace sugar.

Focus beyond Earth is growing, writes Keith Gottschalk.

Study finds early use of dope distorts growth patterns.

The massive East Antarctica ice sheet is already a major contributor to sea-level rise.

One of the worst towns for air pollution the focus of a study pin-pointing NZ's problems.

What makes someone want to live in Antarctica? Jamie Morton explains.

Could chicken feathers help beef up your lean body mass?

Warm seas look set to keep overnight temperatures above normal for a while.

From time travel to dreams, scientists answer - or try to - 10 of the biggest questions.

It might not seem like it - but there's a science to those holiday traffic jams.

Just how cold does it get at Antarctica's Scott Base? Jamie Morton explains.

Scientists don't know where they come from, but they think they're closing in on answer.

Scientists are completing a project to help protect Antarctica's remarkable Dry Valleys.

To be on Antarctica's Ross Island is to be amid the ghosts of giants, writes Jamie Morton.

A glaciologist's epic trek across France-sized ice shelf will help unlock climate clues.

An emergency response plan will be based on a magnitude 8.9 quake and tsunami scenario.

Researchers are examining how much heat waves may have contributed to the jellyfish bloom.

Scientists are gaining world-first insights into the lives of Antarctica's whales.

What's life like at Scott Base? Somewhere between school camp and a space station.

Getting a tan may not depend on how much sun people get, but rather when they get it.

Andrew Stone presents 10 smart ideas and products which could get traction in 2019.

Sharks are remarkable for many abilities: Some of which we don't even understand yet.

Within Antarctica's most active volcano could be the key to understanding alien life.

NZ just saw its warmest year in one and a half centuries of records, scientist says.

It seems they are now realising that the expense of doing nothing is rising rapidly.

Forgiveness does not mean forgetting or minimising the pain we feel.

Far from science fiction, driverless cars are already here - just not yet in New Zealand.

Why are more people experiencing severe food allergies than ever before?

A lot happened in palaeontology in 2018.