The chairman of the Environment Agency, Lord Smith, is expected to back the expansion of the controversial “fracking” method of [...]

Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their flatulence, say scientists.

Magnet-making bacteria may be building biological computers of the future, researchers say.

Hopes have been raised for new Alzheimer’s treatments after scientists found an injection could stop the body from killing brain [...]

He is remembered as an austere, pious figure, unconcerned with his appearance – but now scientists have shed new light [...]

Their distinctive call heralds the arrival of spring, but the routes taken by cuckoos during their annual migration have remained [...]

A “supermoon”, bigger and brighter than usual, is seen in the night sky as it comes closer to the Earth [...]

A ’supermoon’ will grace the skies tonight, with the satellite expected to appear in its biggest and brightest form this [...]

Japan begins the process of shutting down its last nuclear reactor, leaving the country without any nuclear power for the [...]

Two cuckoos fitted with satellite tracking devices return to the UK, revealing new information about the threatened birds’ migration.