Science

Construction crew's dinosaur discovery

It's been a busy few days in Thornton, Colorado, where construction crews have unearthed a dinosaur fossil.

Dinosaur discovery at US construction so exciting, an offer of pies could be on the table for those involved.

The September sky at night

Saturn will be easily visible this month.

Night Sky for September 2017

Fertility may be 'matter of patience'

About 40 per cent of IVF treatments in New Zealand are done privately, costing $8000 to $15,000 each.

Couples considering IVF may not need expensive treatment, research shows.

The science of algorithm

Algorithms are increasingly involved in most aspects of modern life

Algorithms existed centuries before electronic computing

Saturn mission nears end video

A natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, ...

Nasa's Cassini spacecraft will plunge into Saturn next month, but not before transmitting a final set of data.

Growing hearts in petri dishes

A rat with a human ear growing on its back, reportedly pictured by a Shanghai university in the 1990s. Morrison hopes a ...

How tissue engineering could led to breakthroughs in human transplant surgery.

Paid surrogacy push

University of Waikato philosophy lecturer Dr Ruth Walker said women should be compensated for surrogacy, but not under a ...

A new book is proposing a radical new approach to surrogacy in New Zealand: professional surrogates.

Planning our town of the future

Wakatipu High School students and members of the Science Buskers Academy Alice Gilbert and Natty Raymond, assisted by ...

A future where no one owns their own car but is driven by chauffeur by 50 cents a ride.

Camps, electric cars and energy

Mike Ryken a teacher at Taipa Area School uses a hand drill to extract a wood core from which to count tree rings, with ...

Award for scientists take the lead in getting science into schools.

Small earthquakes, big damage video

A damaged house and car after a 4 magnitude earthquake hit in Italy earlier this week.

Have you ever wondered why smaller earthquakes seem to cause a lot of damage?

Arctic trade race speeds up

Nuclear icebreaker 50 let Pobedy made the trip from the city of Murmansk, in Russia's extreme northwest, to the North ...

Russian ships set two new records in the Arctic Ocean as climate change changes the rules of the game.

Florida in a spin over spouts video

Waterspouts are columns of rotating, cloud-filled wind that descend from cumulus clouds to oceans or lakes.

Florida has been treated to a spectacular show courtesy of Mother Nature: twin waterspouts. 

A plague to remember

The plague is spread by fleas but is associated with rats because fleas infests rats.

Life without antibiotics wasn't much fun, especially when it came to the plague.

How Todd Sampson uncovered a repressed memory

Todd Sampson pushes himself to the limit and beyond in his new series Body Hack.

One Australian TV presenter had long feared water - now he knows why.

No body waste in space video

Astronauts could soon be using their own waste as tools and supplements in space.

Scientists have discovered how to turn their own urine, faeces and exhaled breath into tools and supplements in space.

An optimistic sequel

An Inconvenient Sequel is structured around Al Gore's own presentation to rooms full of people training to be "climate ...

REVIEW: Al Gore's documentary is a clarion call for hope and for action.

It's a total solar eclipse video

The total solar eclipse at Depoe Bay in Oregon on the US west coast.

The sun turned dark for parts of the globe and Nasa streamed the whole thing live.

Reversal of the moon?

A multiple exposure image shows the solar eclipse as it creates the effect of a diamond ring at "totality", as seen from ...

Millions of people are watching the eclipse but how does it actually work.

Passenger jet gets up close to eclipse video

The sun is obscured by the moon during a solar eclipse as seen from an Alaska Airlines commercial jet at 40,000 feet ...

A special eclipse-chasing charter flight gave lucky passengers a unique view of the event.

US ready to see sun go dark

An Entrepreneurial sign for parking is displayed for drivers as they near the small town of Depoe Bay, Oregon as it ...

It's happening at 4am, New Zealand time, and its expected to be the most observed, most studied and most photographed eclipse ever.

Stars in your eyes

Scaffolders prepare for roof repairs on the New Plymouth Observatory, and lifting of the dome.

Gazing at the stars will continue at century old observatory in spite of repairs

Kiwi island's astronomical accolade

This long-exposure Milky Way beauty was taken at Great Barrier Island's Medlands Beach.

Great Barrier has become the world's first island to be recognised as a Dark Sky Sanctuary.

Killer crocs on hit list

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"Problem" crocs up to 6m long with a taste for fishermen are fair game, Malaysia rules.

How to see the solar eclipse

Nasa has teamed up with US researchers to send balloons 24,384 metres up to capture the solar eclipse as it crosses the US.

Sadly, NZ won't get to see the greatest show in the solar system in person – but we can still watch live.

Kawau Island observatory to celebrate adventurous sailor

Like ocean voyagers before them Larry and Lin Pardey used traditional navigation like the stars when they sailed.

A new astronomical observatory will honour one of the great blue water sailors, Larry Pardy, who navigated by the stars for nearly 50 years.

Nasa's supervolcano plan

An eruption from Mexico’s Colima Volcano on December 13, 2015. A super-eruption would be vastly bigger.

Nasa's plan to cool the supervolcano threat and get lots of cheap electricity.

First US eclipse since 1918 video

School children wearing protective glasses pose for photographers outside The Royal Observatory during a partial solar ...

Just like storm chasers run after tornadoes, this group get an adrenaline rush from an eclipse.

A rare white moose is on the loose video

Flabbergasted hunters who come across the ghost moose are choosing to let them live.

Flabbergasted hunters who come across the ghost moose are choosing to let them live.

A spectacular climate change score

Climate change will effect different countries in different ways but New Zealand will probably escape the worst of it.

Ever wondered how climate change will effect your life? the University of Notre Dame has the answer.

Frankenstein dinosaur mystery solved

An artist's depiction shows the Chilesaurus. Chilesaurus lived at the end of the Jurassic Period, approximately 145 ...

Two-legged dinosaur with a Frankenstein-like mix of features, could be the "missing link" in dinosaur evolution.

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