Tarantulas release silk through their feet to stop themselves from slipping on slippery, vertical surfaces, according to scientists.

MPs urge ministers to admit they are tacitly subsidising nuclear power despite promising that the industry would not receive such support.

David Cameron moves to resolve a Cabinet row over the UK's climate change targets, with an agreement on emissions to be announced on Tuesday.

The memristor, a potentially revolutionary circuit component, goes under an X-ray microscope to help yield the secrets of how it works.

A man who shot a swan thinking it was a goose is believed to be the first person in England prosecuted for using illegal lead shot on wildfowl.

Investigators say the flight recordings from the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009 have been preserved and are readable.

Some 5,000 people living outside the mandatory no-go zone around Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant are moved amid radiation fears.

Glacial lakes in the Himalayas could pose a major hazard if they are ruptured by earthquakes, scientists say.