A fight between two native NZ species separated for centuries has surprised researchers.

Introducing the the only animal to have survived all five of earth's mass extinctions.

Brain researchers warn that lack of sleep is a public health crisis.

COMMENT: Moths play a distinctly different pollination role to bees.

Ever looked at a face on a billboard and creepily felt their gaze following you?

Papakura Intermediate students are designing their own "astronomical playground".

China's latest monkey cloning experiment sparks outrage and is labelled "monstrous".

A common fertility procedure doesn't boost success rates of pregnancy, NZ researchers say.

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

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.

The technology is already available for an unmanned facility.

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

An elusive penguin's 7000km trek was one of the biggest surprises scientists got in 2018.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.