One of Britain's rarest spiders, the ladybird spider, is reintroduced at a nature reserve in Dorset.

New DNA discoveries add weight to the idea that MS is triggered when the body's immune system turns against itself.

The Large Hadron Collider collaboration begins a "citizen science" project to tap volunteers' computing power to simulate particle collisions.

The creation of an animal with artificial genetic information could give scientists unprecedented control over living organisms, researchers say.

An enzyme from a microbe has shown how to make hydrogen more quickly and more cheaply, which could assist efforts to develop clean power sources.