Musician turned academic Professor Brian Cox and comic actor Miranda Hart are double winners at the Royal Television Society Awards.

The "churkey" owes its distinctive look to a complex genetic mutation, according to scientists in Edinburgh.

The Japanese tsunami killed thousands of albatrosses and other species when it struck a nature sanctuary on Midway atoll, northwest of Hawaii.

Japan's Emperor Akihito says in a highly unusual TV address he is "deeply worried" about the nuclear crisis his country is facing following last Friday's quake and tsunami.

Elephants pay close attention to their elders when responding to a the threat of a predator, according to a study.

Scientists have tested 115-year-old X-ray equipment, generating striking images with the incredibly simple device.

Such was the scale of last Friday's tsunami that sizeable waves reached right across the Pacific basin to New Zealand and the Antarctic, say NZ researchers.

Events at the shut-down Fukushima reactor 4 raise questions - and some alarm.