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.

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

Here is a list of substances that are more poisonous than their LD50 values might indicate.

Last year, in a lab in Japan, a mouse grew hair.

Scared of looking down more than you used to be?

A breakthrough development in growing skin in labs could mean a lifetime with a full head of hair.

Food is actually an engineered structure, consisting of water, proteins, carbohydrates and fats that each undergo a series of changes during mixing, whipping and cooking.

US researchers have confirmed a strange link between touching rough surfaces and feeling for others, which could help charities raise more money.

Visitors to an upcoming Mars exhibit at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center will be able to explore several sites on the red planet, reconstructed using real imagery from Nasa's Curiosity Mars Rover.

Is your morning routine feeling like more of a battle lately?

Earthquakes are a natural hazard - except when they're man-made.

Food that's only touched the floor for five seconds is okay to eat, isn't it?

Leafy suburbs like Parnell might be seen as Auckland's elite neighbourhoods but more affordable areas have the upper hand in something, it seems.

New study shows challenging the immune systems of kakapo and other endangered species may help bring them back from the brink.

The explosive history of Rangitoto has again been rewritten, after scientists recovered buried clues of ancient blasts deep below the Island.

Bugs capable of everything from curing diseases to mopping up pollution are a step closer after scientists created an artificial lifeform in a lab.

In 2012 in New Zealand, 3137 deaths, 11 per cent, were attributable to environmental factors.

The team tested the two groups of birds using not only associative learning tasks, but innovative problem-solving tasks.

The extrasolar planet HD 20782, about 117 light years from Earth.

Award-winning science writer Dr Rebecca Priestley's new anthology of Antarctic science, Dispatches from Continent Seven, starts out with her own experience on the ice.

Study finds people more likely to mingle with people with similar physical traits — including levels of attractiveness.

Psychologists reveal why we close our eyes when locking lips.