Test of genetic doubles gave scientists the opportunity to track details of human biology.

Students in China want to join Alexandria Villasenor's climate change movement.

Scientists have shed fresh light on why seemingly unrelated diseases so often go together.

COMMENT: Research shows reducing the age for free mammograms to 35 could save lives.

The gigantic megalodon went extinct earlier than thought - with the great white to blame.

Century-old bird specimens may be key to saving an under-threat Hauraki Gulf species.

Buoys dropped in the world's strongest ocean current have travelled 6500km in just a year.

Last summer's record-hot temperatures are a warning about our future, scientist says.

Stalagmites and stalactites could predict the next big quake, or the next super-eruption.

Kiwi scientists join bold mission to measure mysterious cosmic ripples - from space.

Actually, I'm joining the majority — 95 per cent of humans never fly.

Scientists have suggested a better way to reveal the source of campylobacter outbreaks.

Explosives helping reveal how Antarctica's ice shelves might respond to a warming world.

Scientists are urgently trying to model NZ's "warm" forests to save the birds within them.

Dr Mark McCann calls milk a miracle food - and for good reason.

Researchers have found that 60 per cent of coffee species are at risk of extinction.

Scientists have many tools at their disposal to study, manipulate and copy genes.

Just 250 of this rare shore bird endemic to New Zealand still remain.

Men's brains are nearly four years "older" than those of females.

Lower Hutt geohazards centre shaking up the way we monitor earthquakes.

New centre already helping us better monitor earthquakes - and could save lives.

Here's something to try to beat that night-time heat - and which may benefit your brain.

COMMENT: The brain is the most efficient computer that has ever existed.

Findings of a decade-long study to be presented in public meeting on February 12.

If we want bird life, we need healthy bush. If we want healthy bush, possums must go.

A phenomenon Einstein said was "too spooky to be true" could power future computers.

A Kiwi start-up is using drones to clear rats from an island in a world-first mission.

It might be hot – but this month's warmth still doesn't stack up to last January.