Five suspected rhino poachers have been shot dead in South Africa's biggest game park in the last four days, officials reveal.

Pressure on local authorities to meet targets for keeping waste out of landfill is at risk of backfiring, a report says.

Astronomers reveal the most distant cluster of galaxies ever seen, caught at a never-before-seen stage of development.

A single peat moss has colonised sites across America with genetically identical offspring, producing arguably the most genetically uniform widespread group of plants known.

The first recognisably modern computer - the Edsac - is to be rebuilt at the UK's former code-cracking centre Bletchley Park.

The frequency of heavy rainfall in North England's uplands during the autumn and winter has "significantly" increased during the 20th Century, a study shows.

Red dwarf stars have surprisingly frequent flare-ups, scientists say, and these solar flares' effects could be deadly to life on nearby planets.

Scientists have unveiled a new type of dinosaur dating from the late Triassic period, around 230 million years ago.