First results from a major astronomical survey have confirmed the existence of mysterious dark energy using a cutting-edge technique.

Japan's 11 March mega-quake shifted the ocean floor sideways by more than 20m (65ft), according one instrument placed on the seabed off the nation's coast.

An Amazon tribe lack an abstract concept of time, as well as linguistic structures that equate time and space which once were thought to be universal.

A man who was paralysed from the chest down after being hit by a car is now able to stand with electrical stimulation of his spinal cord.

Marine animal experts are trying to prevent a mass stranding by up to 100 pilot whales in South Uist in the Western Isles.

A highly developed sense of smell kick-started the development of mammals' big brains.

London's famous Kew Gardens is among places involved in a fight to stop the oak processionary moth caterpillar which damages oak trees and poses a health risk to humans.