COMMENT: Scientists have taken phytoremediation one step further by combining it with nanobionics - the process of modifying biology with engineering.

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.

Over the last decade the rise of the podcasts continues to enable us to expand our minds without having to open a book or scroll through the Internet.

"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.

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.

COMMENT: Short messages - what makes Twitter Twitter - are inherently conducive to insults, ill will and degraded discourse.

Ultra-sensitive fibre-optic sensors extending nearly a kilometre below the Southern Alps will transform what we know about one of the biggest earthquake threats facing New Zealand.

A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using Facebook is associated with living longer - when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world social ties.

Struggling to remember passwords for everything from online banking to internet shopping is a curse of the modern world.

First it was the Note 7, now Samsung has announced a formal recall of 2.8 million top-load washing machines.

COMMENT: Juha Saarinen weighs in on the new MacBook Pro 13-inch.

Kiwis are set to be treated with the most spectacular "supermoon" since 1948 - if bad weather doesn't hide it from us.

Executives suggest the company probably won't be able to keep up with its explosive pace of growth much longer.

COMMENT: Rhe person that best captures the mind-boggle of it all is neither Trump, nor Ms Bono, nor novelty shrimps, but Peter Thiel.

New Zealand cooperatives - particularly those in Wellington - have a lot to offer under-developed countries.