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Monsters key to building bold kids

Can tales of fantasy provide real, useful coping mechanisms to kids muddling through difficult times?

Fish oil study: 5 things you need to know

COMMENT: The Auckland University researchers behind a controversial fish oil study published last month outline five key facts about it.

Why do people get road rage?

What causes usually calm people to become angry on the roads?

The buzz about bees

Corporate control of agriculture, new viruses and climate change have been singled out among a long list of big threats to pollinators in a new horizon-scanning study co-authored by a Kiwi scientist.

Meet our glow-in-the-dark neighbour

Scientists have just discovered two new species of a glow-in-the-dark fish family found deep in waters near New Zealand.

Then there were two: Falcon mystery solved

New Zealand's native falcon isn't one species but two sub-species that live separately on the North Island and South Island, a new study confirms.

DNA test could transform cancer treatment

Patients battling advanced breast cancer could be spared needless treatments with a clever DNA-based technique that uses personalised blood tests to closely monitor tumours.

Stress in C-section mums' milk: study

Mothers who have had a c-section or are raising a child on their own have significantly higher levels of stress hormones in their breast milk, says research.

Feeling repressed at work? Try being a bee

It seems bees have their own special brand of workplace bullying, with queens able to effectively control the fertility of their workers. Kiwi scientists reveal how it works.

Is this New Zealand's oldest chook?

DNA detective work has found a simple explanation to a long-standing mystery surrounding New Zealand's earliest domestic chooks.

Growing concerns for orca calf

There are growing concerns an orca calf could starve after being separated from its family about two weeks ago.

Giant leap to pest-free NZ is attainable

COMMENT: We owe it to coming generations to do as much as we can to repair the damage of the past and to re-create a New Zealand.

Six great Kiwi conspiracy theories

Does an ancient race of reptilian psychos run the world? Paul Little goes inside the world of conspiracy theorists.

Kiwi killers targeted by sniff tests

Researchers have happened upon a clever new way to fool a notorious kiwi-killing predator - by using its own sense of smell against it.

Major boost for Kiwi-made EV technology

A pair of Kiwi scientists' dream of highways being filled with electric cars that drive without ever having to fill up or plug in has taken a big step closer to reality.

Rifleman holds key to New Zealand's past

The secret of New Zealand's geological past has been found in the unlikely hiding place of a tiny native bird's DNA.