Kiwi experts are on the front lines fighting the "antibiotic apocalypse".

COMMENT: How social media is shaping political debate as the public square migrates online.

A series of intelligence briefings will deal with covert actions, contingency plans for using nuclear weapons and even the names of major foreign agents.

Years after most people threw out their VHS machines, there has been a surge in sales to a surprising buyer.

Those who illegally download television shows and movies are about to find it much harder, with leading torrent sites in Google's scope.

In 1970s, some of NZ's leading thinkers were correctly predicting a future of smartphones, broadband and HDTVs. Did we stop trying to gaze beyond horizon?

The Herald has put together the ultimate silly season planning guide to get you to the big day with the minimum of fuss.

Australasia's first Exponential Technology summit organiser Kaila Colbin shares five things she expects to see in the not-too-distant future.

A new law will limit free expression even further.

The next set of emojis could finally include everything you've been waiting for - and then some.

A world-famous thinker says New Zealand could be the "Athens of the modern world".

Kiwi software company Xero is looking to bring some American "refugees" to New Zealand in the wake of the US election.

The President Elect Donald Trump bodes well for farms and coal mines, but trade deals will be left in peril.

COMMENT: The roll-out of 5G, the fifth generation of wireless broadband technology, is just around the corner.

COMMENT: Virtual reality is on the cusp of breaking through to a mainstream technology.

COMMENT: Associate Professor Johan Potgieter reckons New Zealand's future as a space nation looks bright.

Brisbane man who stabbed a woman 11 times had a history of abusing women.

COMMENT: The Research and Education Advanced Network is a decade older, but it would preferable if it was almost 20, writes Juha Saarinen.

"Pantsuit Nation" started about two weeks ago. It now has nearly 2 million members.

Source: YouTube: TedEd. The bizarre and often grotesque way some parasites brainwash their victims — then often force them to kill themselves — will be explored in a new $830,000 Kiwi study.

A clever tracking innovation dubbed DroneCounts, combining the use of drones with radio tags and pioneered by a pair of Kiwis, has scooped a major conservation award. The prototype Duckatron is used to locate a pateke in Habitat Te Henga, in the Waitakere Ranges

A clever tracking innovation, combining the use of drones with radio tags and dubbed DroneCounts, has scooped a major conservation award.

Horror parasites brainwash their victims, driving them to kill themselves. And they're in your backyard.

Hillary Clinton is making a last push to get young voters through Snapchat filters.

The US has levelled an extraordinary threat against Russia admitting it has laid the groundwork for a devastating cyber assault against the country.

For the first time, scientists will construct a detailed picture stretching back more than 500 years of how we've affected our most important fisheries species - potentially genetically.

Scientists are to harness the power of ultra-fast lasers to finally reveal how an intriguing and complex UV filter within our bodies protect us from the sun.

Some of the new dating apps out there might be worthwhile. But here are a few I've come across that seem unnecessary or downright silly.

The hottest year on record globally in 2015 could be an average year by 2025 and beyond if carbon emissions continue to rise at the same rate, new research has found.

Scientists will reconstruct more than 20,000 years of NZ's ecological history to better understand how our species will respond to climate change.