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Have we been making our snapper smaller?

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.

How do our bodies protect us from UV?

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.

Why you can't get that song out of your head

COMMENT: Having a song stuck in one's head, known as an earworm, is an experience that over 90% of us have on a regular basis.

Record heat may be new normal by 2025

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.

Mystery of two-headed mutant sharks

Two-headed sharks sound like a monster ripped straight out of a B-list horror movie, but scientists are increasingly finding more of them worldwide.

Climate change risks get star treatment

COMMENT: DiCaprio's documentary has been viewed more than six million times and will raise public consciousness.

Why chubby dads are attractive to women

Scientists say pudgy older fathers live longer, are more attractive to women and are better at passing on their genes.

The fruit scientists say can beat wrinkles

Eating plenty of tomatoes could stave off wrinkles - and even skin cancer, say scientists.

NZ history: Reconstructing 20,000 years

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

Why first-borns are smarter and richer

A new study explains the birth order puzzle, and the impact of changes to parenting behaviours.

Marsden minds: Best projects revealed

Research to find new Earth-like planets, clean up our waterways and boost our health have just received $65 million from the Marsden Fund. We look at 10 of the best.

Warm weather ahead - but not without wet

Hotter than average temperatures can be expected across the entire country over the next three months - but the warm won't come without rain.

How did Sophie the shark elude scientists?

Scientists who sought to solve mysteries about hammerhead sharks were only left with another when one of the first adults ever tagged ended up eluding them.

'Shielding' underpants designed to protect men

Underpants which protect men's fertility by shielding them from cell phone radiation have hit the market.

New hellhole planet a 'nightmare'

With rain that would feel like 'death by a thousand cuts' this planet would be terrible to visit.

Drones, 'drifters' to map deadly rip currents

Drones and GPS-tracking dummies are being deployed at Kiwi beaches to boost our understanding of the country's deadliest rips.

Q&A: Revealing the threat that lies beneath

Science reporter Jamie Morton talks to GNS Science earthquake geologist Dr Rob Langridge about a renewed effort to catalogue a nationwide web of active faults threatening New Zealand.

Fisherman's Foxton find stuns Sydney scientists

A wayward scientific instrument has completed a remarkable year-long journey across the Tasman Sea, delighting the Aussie researchers who thought it'd been lost for good.