A renewed attempt to develop ways of making power stations greener is set to be unveiled by the government.

A leading scientist tells the BBC he is resigning from an expert body overseeing the athlete's biological passport because he is being "muzzled".

The Ministry of Defence must invest in science and technology now or suffer the consequences in coming years, a meeting in London hears.

A thief in South Africa cuts the horn off a fibreglass rhino during a burglary at a lodge in a game reserve in the Eastern Cape.

An international team of scientists says they have new evidence that our ancestors were using fire as early as a million years ago.

Last month's enduring sunny spells meant that it was the third warmest March on record - and the hottest since 1957 - the Met Office says.

MIT researchers are trying to build tiny robots that can join together to create usable tools.