Fruit flies, mice, zebrafish, yeast and the tiny worm C. elegans are model organisms that have carried modern biology on their backs.

Scientists have pulled off a feat long considered out of reach: getting light to mimic the famous quantum Hall effect. In their experiment, photons drift sideways in perfectly defined, quantized steps ...

Edwards works at Bay of Plenty Regional Council as a geospatial analyst. The job involves her collecting, managing and analysing map location-based data using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to ...

Researchers use AI and postmortem tissue to reveal that tau PET scans are often influenced by iron and neuroinflammation rather than tau tangles alone.

Female peacocks, called peahens, are more subdued in colour, with brown, grey, and limited green feathers, which helps them ...

But New Zealand is home to an amazing version of glow worms – the Arachnocampa luminosa – and they are responsible for one of the most stunning natural spectacles in the world. The common glow worm, ...