CHICAGO (Reuters) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu has done it. So has genome pioneer Craig Venter. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain risks decades of slow economic decline unless it invests heavily in research, which at the moment is one of the country's few genuine areas of economic c ...

The mechanism by which thalidomide causes malformed limbs is revealed by scientists. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found the "mother," or origin, of all skin cells and say their discovery could dramatically improve skin treatments for victims of serious wounds ...

Telepathy has taken a step closer to reality after British scientists developed a computer that can read your thoughts. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two studies published on Wednesday show it is possible to sequence the entire gene maps of families with inherited diseases and pinpoint the offending bit of ...

Researchers in Edinburgh say they have solved the mystery of why some chickens hatch out half-male and half-female. ...

The dawning age of the agricultural automatons ...

Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU backs the plan. ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Dark matter, which scientists believe makes up 25 percent of the universe but whose existence has never been proven, could be detected by the giant particle coll ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Vitamin D is vital in activating human defences and low levels suffered by around half the world's population may mean their immune systems' killer T cells are p ...

Jodrell Bank observatory is to build a 'live science' centre next to the Lovell telescope to attract a new generation of physicists and astronomers. ...

Men with wider faces are less trustworthy than others, according to new research. ...

Having a massage is no better at beating stress than home relaxation techniques like breathing deeply and listening to soothing music, a study has found. ...

Doing crosswords or puzzles such as sudoku can help people make-up quickly after arguments with their partners, research has found. ...

Meteorites that bombarded Earth four billion years ago could have kick-started life rather than wiping it out, a study shows. ...

The UN Secretary-General asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate science body. ...

Reports indicate that the EU has decided to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna. ...

The Large Hadron Collider is to shut down for a year to repair mistakes made in construction in the latest in a series of set backs to hit the atom smasher. ...

Common drugs used to treat the brittle bone disease osteoporosis could make limbs easier to break if used for too long, research suggests. ...

Environmentalists and the EU lock horns over biofuels ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will outline his administration's vision for space agency NASA and an eventual trip to Mars during a conference in Florida in April, t ...

The science spokesmen of the three main political parties cross swords on the issue of UK research funding. ...

German researchers studying the psychology of sexual attraction found that stressed men made strange choices in sexual preferences. ...

Rummaging in BBC archive for Apollo reports 40 years on ...

Major step towards mimicking conditions that followed the Big Bang three days after a restart. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stoke global wa ...

The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo, scientists discover. ...

The digital billboard similar to ones from the Tom Cruise film are being developed by NEC, the Japanese technology company. ...

The penguin, believed to have melanism, was spotted on Fortuna Bay, an island off South Georgia, about 860 miles off the Falklands. ...

Towering 10 feet into the air and weighing more than half a ton, it was the biggest bird that ever lived until French colonists wiped it out more than three hundred years ago. ...

A cow has given birth to triplets despite the odds of doing so being 100,000 to one. ...

Listening to subtle changes in the calls of female giant pandas may help improve attempts to get the highly endangered animals to breed in captivity, new research has revealed. ...

The row sparked by the leak of climate change emails from a British university has the potential to "undermine" the reputation of science as a whole, two respected scientific organ ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly ca ...

Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, according to Italian scientists. ...

The Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned. ...

The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say. ...

Can all species live side by side in unique ecosystem? ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies fired up the engines of its debut Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and ev ...

A never-before-seen reaction in nanotubes could make for batteries that pack a mighty punch, say researchers. ...

A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country's government to halt experiments at the world's largest atom smasher which she feared would lead to the Earth's destruction. ...

David Cameron's body language has been deemed more attractive to voters than that of Gordon Brown. ...

SINGAPORE/ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska. ...

Research shows some EU countries "import" about a third of their carbon emissions from developing countries. ...

Chameleon have a hidden advantage as hunters, a ballistic tongue that works well in the cold. ...

There are growing concerns about the future of the Lough Neagh eel fishery and the hundreds of jobs it supports. ...

Skynet 5, the UK's single biggest space project, is to get a fourth satellite to up the bandwidth available to British forces. ...

One of the loneliest flowers on earth in all its glory ...

On the merits of biological control of alien invaders ...

Secrets the coming missions to Jupiter could reveal ...

STAR CITY, Russia (Reuters) - Russia announced a halt to space tourism on Wednesday, saying it would struggle to ferry professional crews to the International Space Station after t ...

Millions of sap-sucking insects are to be introduced to control Japanese knotweed. But what kind of insect is the new gardener's friend? ...

A superweed that has been the bane of gardeners across the UK for more than a century has finally met its match - a tiny bug from Japan. ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists have unearthed the intact sarcophagus of Egypt's Queen Behenu inside her 4,000-year-old burial chamber near her pyramid in Saqqara, chief archaeolo ...

Idle chit chat can make you unhappy, a study has found. ...

Drinking sugar-sweetened soft drinks has been linked to an increase in new cases of diabetes and heart disease. ...