Scientists developing genetically genetically modified wheat ask campaigners to come for a chat rather than ruin their experimental plots.

Researchers confirm that the wounds on Oetzi, a 5,300-year-old frozen caveman found in the Alps in 1991, contain the oldest known traces of blood.

Standpipes could be needed in the streets next year if England faces another dry winter, the environment secretary warns.

Two Welsh tourists who stole a penguin named Dirk from a theme park following a night out are each fined 1,000 Australian dollars.

Delegates to the European Space Agency are expected to approve a billion-euro mission to Jupiter and its icy moons when they meet in Paris on Wednesday.

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales is to help the UK government make the academic research it funds freely available to all.

The editor of the world-leading scientific journal Nature says current procedures to assess and censor research potentially useful to bioterrorists are "problematic" and need to be imporved.

Researchers are surprised by how much earlier plants begin flowering when at elevated temperatures - a far greater effect than models predict.