When he was 5, Glenn Martin dreamed of flying to school.

On the quest to find true love, it is a well-used adage that one must kiss a few frogs before meeting a prince. And it would appear this theory is accurate.

"The matter is not as simple as plain stupidity. Some anti-vaxxers are not that stupid, and some stupid people are not anti-vaxxers. There is something more subtle going on."

Last year scientists declared we had reached a "peak beard" situation. Bearded hipsters, they said, would start picking up their razors in the realisation that their facial hair was no longer unique.

The jagged teeth of a hefty predator that lived in our waters 80 million years ago have been discovered in a Hawkes Bay forest.

Almost nobody was born under the sign they think they are, as the astrological calendar has failed to be updated as our position in relation to the stars has changed.

The detection of miniature black holes by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could prove the existence of parallel universes.

Dug out of a car park five centuries after his mutilated body was unceremoniously interred, England's Richard III will finally be given a burial fit for a king.

When teenagers complain they are not understood, they are struggling to understand their own impulses and obsessions. They may find some answers in neuroscience.

Newly discovered ancestor of modern crocodiles may have been one the world's top predators before dinosaurs arrived.

Auditor-General Lyn Provost says more work needs to be done on the business case for a $100 million restructuring of AgResearch, the country's largest Crown Research Institute.

Dr Michelle Dickinson, aka ‘Nanogirl’, who runs New Zealand's only nanomechanical lab, talks about science on TV, radio, social media and in schools.

We may now be a step closer to discovering what love is, thanks to a scientific study that has obtained the first empirical evidence of love-related alterations in the brain.

Kerre McIvor writes: This week, an Aussie medical council made public a report concluding homeopathy is not effective for treating any medical condition. In effect, it's bunkum.

A filter-feeding ''lobster'' as big as a human took the place of whales 480 million years ago, a new fossil find has shown.

Why all hipsters look the same - scientists reveal the maths behind beards, bicycles and man buns.

Just about everybody has one raging narcissist to deal with, sooner or later - on the job, in social situations or (God forbid) in the home. How did he get this way, we wonder?

Benevolent sexism makes men more smiley when they interact with women, and that's bad news.

A Christchurch start-up is developing a radiation-free breast cancer screening system that will perform better in hard-to-diagnose cases.

The lives of tens of thousands of new mothers around the world could be saved by a simple, hand-held, British-made device.

The first case of a mother acting as a surrogate to help her son become a parent raises deep questions about the changing nature of families, says Cristina Odone.

Nasa was last night celebrating the arrival of its space probe into the orbit of dwarf planet Ceres but Kiwi stargazers will have to wait several weeks to see any fresh footage from the Dawn probe.

New British research linking hormone replacement therapy to ovarian cancer has caused Australian women to become concerned about the treatment, health experts say.

There's still a lot of work that needs to be done to make the leap between coffee not being bad for you and coffee being the cause of better health.

With such opposing looks it's hard to believe this striking pair are sisters. But they are much more than that - they are twins.

Research into how breast milk is produced could help in the search for a breast cancer cure.

Roni Caryn Rabin's mother seemed to have all the signs of classic dementia, except she made a miraculous recovery 10 years later.