What was thought to have been a big East Coast earthquake actually turned out to be two.

App that trains brains to focus may aid ADHD sufferers.

These experiments are stuff of conspiracy theory, but now it's been revealed it was true.

How warm would the ocean have to get to melt Antarctica's marine ice sheets, study asks.

China seems to confirm scientist's claim.

No one knew the answers when Whitianga students started investigating their local estuary.

Trump might have been joking, but but scientists see nothing to laugh at.

Forget to take your medication? A new digital pill will alert you - and your doctor.

Told to welcome "a real scientist", a child protested: "But we are all scientists!"

When our hands don't work properly or are injured, it profoundly changes our world.

Astronomer has weighed in on the debate over whether we are alone in the universe.

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.

Could chicken feathers help beef up your lean body mass?

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

China is exporting its cutting-edge facial recognition across the Pacific.

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

COMMENT: After humans, mosquitoes are the most dangerous animal on the planet.

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 have found a new way to peer beneath the largest single mass of ice on Earth.