The Madagascan Darwin's bark spider gives oral sex to female mates up to 100 times during sex. Its reward? Being eaten afterward.

COMMENT: I learned all our calculations for dealing with climate change could be swept aside by a non-linear event. This could be it.

Humans' use of natural glue dates back to 4000BC.

Star-gazers are enjoying their best view of Mars in a decade.

Intense training amid 35C heat and 80 per cent humidity may sound like hell to most of us, but to elite athletes it could mean all the difference in making it to the podium.

Half of Western European men are descended from one Bronze Age "king" who sired a dynasty of nobles which spread throughout Europe, a study has shown.

New Zealand can and must do more to fight climate change on the home front, say authors of a high-level report out today.

Feel like time is passing you by quicker than ever? Scientists may have discovered why.

ESR Forensics boss Dr Keith Bedford has had oversight of the forensic evidence in virtually every high-profile court case in New Zealand in recent decades.

The shedding of emotional tears is unique to humans, but our evolutionary, psychological and biological reasons for "crying it out" remain a mystery.

COMMENT: The internet contains a vast store of information which is much bigger than any individual brain can carry - and that's not always a good thing.

COMMENT: Our current system already proves an essential point: robots must be able to disobey in order to obey, writes Matthias Scheutz.

London's first timber skyscraper could be a step closer to reality after researchers presented Mayor of London Boris Johnson with conceptual plans.

COMMENT: Any move to reduce the impact of poor quality science and base our decisions on genuine, peer-reviewed information is a positive one for NZ.

The shedding of emotional tears is unique to humans, but our evolutionary, psychological and biological reasons for "crying it out" remain a mystery.

Forget everything you know about binge-watching TV. Alejandro "AJ" Fragoso has you beat.

New findings could explain why failures in the control of bed bug infestations are so common.

An Internet investor has enlisted famed physicist Stephen Hawking to help him with a futuristic plan for seeking life in outer space. (April 12)

Popular geologist and palaeontologist Hamish Campbell has co-written two of the definitive books on how New Zealand was formed.

With no cause and no cure, autism remains one of the most mind-bogglingly complex disorders for researchers to tackle.

Dr Javier Virues-Ortega, director of the university's applied behaviour analysis programme, believes the project will be a pioneering effort to bring together behavioural and neuro-imaging experts to seek out any links or improvements therapies may have had on brain connectivity.

Up to $250,000 worth of scientific equipment might have just been lost with a pair of massive ice bergs which have broken off the Antarctic coastline.

The catastrophic eruption that wiped out the famed Pink and White Terraces may have been triggered by a build-up of magma beneath Lake Rotomahana.

How do you stop cows burping? Or override Parkinson's disease? Jamie Morton celebrates 10 top pieces of Kiwi science and innovation.

Nasa has postponed the launch of its data-gathering balloon from Wanaka because of the weather.

An interactive therapeutic robot, the Food and Drug Administration have categorised them as a class II medical device.

Why is it that by the time millions of us are adults, we are subsisting on diets full of saturated fats and processed sugars?

WATCH: They don't look like much, but these tiny trap-jaw spiders found only in NZ and southern South America are the Beauden Barretts of the arachnid world.

It would take six to eight months' travel by rocket, if the planet is lined up with Earth in the right way.