Before Scientology's first lady disappeared, a young woman died in odd circumstances.

Eat sugar and fat, get fat? There's much more to obesity than that, writes Jamie Morton.

Nasa has found that life away from planet Earth has exacted a surprising toll.

Other people's stress may change our brains in the same way that our own stress does.

COMMENT: There are many reasons why pregnancy could negatively affect oral health.

A group of young Kiwis have helped make new discoveries in NZ's Kermadec Islands.

Scientist never shied away from challenging theories.

Stark warning issued by Professor Stephen Hawking in the months before his death.

850 tonnes of mud and sand flushed away seafloor life in Kaikoura Canyon.

The world's great scientist since Einstein, Professor Stephen Hawking, has died, aged 76.

DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for first time.

Microplastic pollution is a lot worse than initially thought, experts have confirmed.

Scientists aim to better understand the habitat and movements of the little flying mammal.

NZ's leading science body joins unprecedented Commonwealth call for climate action.

One of Auckland university's more than a dozen drugs to have reached clinical trial stage.

Scientists reveal new insights into a culture regarded as Polynesians' ancient ancestors.

University insights find there's a glaring lack of diversity in the robot world.

Suspecting natural fibres are better for skin than synthetic ones isn't woolly thinking.

Scientists around the globe are on alert for a new and potentially deadly pathogen.

OPINION: Understanding how tattoos remain in skin could help develop removal techniques.

Can't put your phone down? This might be why.

It could kill thousands, but there's much about our main geological threat we don't know.

NZ among countries investing in "space-breaking" project.

Kiwi scientists return from Antarctica with important new climate-change insights.

World first horsetail weed control with weevils. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Experts say there are three reasons why NZ may be hit again. Jamie Morton explains.

Lawrence Krauss was due to speak on a double-bill with Richard Dawkins in May.

Scientists set to install listening posts deep in the high-risk Hikurangi Subduction Zone.

Two options offer areas for new reserves, but environment group calls process "flawed".

Could NZ have a tsunami early warning system? A visiting Japanese scientist thinks so.