The UK government did not give sufficient consideration to the wider impacts of closing the Forensic Science Service, an MPs' inquiry concludes.

A study of Himalayan "singing bowls" using high-speed video and mathematical modelling unravels the secrets of the bowls' watery dance.

Researchers settle whose skull makes for the top head-butt; dinosaurs beat modern day animals to win the title of heavy-weight head-butter.

Energy regulator Ofgem has fined British Gas £1m for misreporting how much electricity it supplied.

Tanzania will go ahead with plans to mine uranium in the Selous Game Reserve - a UN World Heritage site - a minister tells the BBC.

A UK zoo launches a website it hopes will help bridge a growing divide between young people and conservation.

A US particle physics experiment inches closer to explaining once and for all why there is more matter than antimatter in the Universe.

Australian officials are investigating why dozens of turtles - many of them dead - have been washed up on beaches near the city of Townsville.