The smallest male fish adopt a sneaky mating strategy, squeezing closer to a female in order to fertilise her eggs, according to scientists.

Females are more promiscuous when their population becomes inbred, show scientists.

A lock of hair has helped scientists to piece together the genome of Australian Aborigines and rewrite the history of human dispersal around the world.

A man who burned to death in his home died as a result of spontaneous combustion, an Irish coroner has ruled.

Scientists in the Netherlands are using robotic legs to try and improve the movement of stroke patients.

Doctors at Moorfields Eye hospital in London have been given the go-ahead to carry out Europe's first clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells.

Scientists who linked Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also known as ME, to the XMRV virus have withdrawn some of their findings.

Nasa releases the first global map of ocean surface salinity acquired by the Aquarius/SAC-D satellite, which was launched in June.