Scientists sequence the genome of the Tasmanian devil to try to protect the endangered marsupial against a contagious facial cancer.

Angry Tepco shareholders fail to force the company to abandon nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi radiation crisis.

The inside of a Mayan tomb thought to be 1,500 years old is filmed by archaeologists in Mexico.

A herd of goats is introduced on to Bristol's Avon Gorge as part of a plan to save rare wild flowers.

A movement to replace the mathematical constant pi with tau - a constant twice as large, or 6.28 - celebrates "Tau Day" on 28 June.

All but two of the EU's 27 member states give the go-ahead to launch formal talks on creating a simplified European patent system.

The Dutch lower house of parliament passes a law effectively banning the ritual slaughter of animals, in a move condemned by Muslim and Jewish groups.

One of the top nuclear weapons research facilities in the US is to remain closed until Thursday as fire fighters battle a raging wildfire.