A £1m prize - named after the Queen - will be awarded for exceptional advances in engineering.

UN scientists are warning that a virus that attacks the cassava plant is on the verge of an epidemic in parts of Africa.

Radioactive caesium above safety levels is found in rice in Japan for the first time since the nuclear crisis began at the Fukushima plant.

Excavations in Cirencester unearth one of the earliest burial sites ever found in Roman Britain.

Scientists think they can now explain the existence of what are perhaps Earth's most extraordinary mountains - the ice-entombed Gamburtsevs of Antarctica.

Forensic scene investigators from West Midlands Police lift the lid on their profession using Twitter.

Geologists are trying to better understand how rare metals formed in Scotland amid rising global demand for the materials.

A study of invertebrates on two Dumfries and Galloway estates finds three species that are new to Scotland.