Decades of census data, alongside a mathematical model borrowed from physics, suggest religion is being driven to extinction, researchers say.

Support for new nuclear power stations has fallen, a survey shows - though more people are in favour than opposed.

A best-in-class demonstration of a quantum computing device shows that, after years of development, real quantum computers may be on the horizon.

Time-lapse footage reveals how a lily blooms and why the flowers have their familiar wrinkled petals.

Work to connect power cables to all six reactors at Japan's stricken nuclear plant is completed but further testing is needed before the electricity can be switched on.

An international comparison of trainee teachers suggests England's trainees have less mathematical knowledge than their peers in some chief economic competitors.

Scientists examine the results from 1950s experiments to show how the foul-smelling hydrogen sulphide may have been an important precursor in the chemistry that eventually led to life on Earth

A species of blood-sucking tick usually found in continental Europe has become established in the UK, scientists say.