Great news for students - jeans left unwashed for a year are no dirtier than those that have been worn for a fortnight.

Ethics experts have approved NZ's first clinical trial using adult stem cells to treat people with spinal injuries.

Two blokes with a love of weird science have created pretty much everything but the perfect woman for their new show.

Google has announced an online global science fair allowing any student with a web connection and a Google account to enter a competition with a NZ$64,800 prize.

Experts blame a combination of a La Nina weather pattern and global warming for the magnitude of the Queensland flood disaster.

What if a DNA reading machine could be fed through a machine, much like swiping your credit card?

A couple so desperate for a baby girl that they terminated twin boys are fighting to choose the gender of their next child.

Smelling a woman's tears can quell a man's sexual desire, a study has found.

Is climate change the greatest modern threat?

Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year.

Scientists from 38 organisations in ten countries collaborated to publish the complete DNA sequence of the woodland strawberry.

NZ's most famous UFO sighting was a moving cluster of bright lights five times the size of a large fishing vessel that dazzled and spooked the occupants of a small plane, files released today reveal.

Thousands of people turned their eyes to the sky for the first lunar eclipse visible from NZ in three years.

A front rolling across the country is set to obscure the first lunar eclipse in NZ skies in almost three years.