The world's rarest dolphin could be down to fewer than 80 individuals, with conservationists enraged after a female was killed last month.

NZ scientists retrieve a creature from the depths that looks like a giant albino flea.

Amazing images show how an iceberg the size of Manhattan is close to splitting from Antarctica.

Several science policy experts say Newt Gingrich's moon outpost ideas are based in mainstream science.

Retiring MetService weather ambassador Bob McDavitt issues a final weather warning.

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The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years.

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If God had an eye, it would probably look like this.

Recent history suggests NZ birds have a lot in common with the Alfred Hitchcock kind.

An image of the braided Rakaia River in Canterbury has won an online vote for satellite imaging firm DigitalGlobe's best satellite image of 2011.

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The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it is a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber stars in our galaxy and they are even finding them in the strangest of places.

The world has inched closer to apocalypse after scientists moved the Doomsday Clock one minute closer to the zero hour.

The world's first hybrid sharks have been discovered off the Australian coast, scientists say.

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Two Nasa probes are due to arrive at the moon this weekend to resolve a long-standing mystery.

Sugar and fat produce changes in the brain which resemble the effects of addictive drugs, a Waikato University scientist says.

A prestigious scientific journal is retracting a controversial 2009 report that linked chronic fatigue syndrome to a virus.

We can have accurate memories of things that happened to us as young as age two, researchers say.

A trio of astronauts has blasted off aboard a Soyuz rocket on a mission to bring the ISS back up to full manpower after an August cargo launch accident disrupted flights.

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Nasa announces discovery of the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star.

Warmer weather could see a shift in the locations of New Zealand's wettest places.

Southland history buffs and Maori are celebrating a rare find after part of a waka was dug up.