Pacific Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California are found to have radioactive contamination from last year's Fukushima nuclear accident.

Dormice use their whiskers to sense where they are going as they scale trees, researchers say.

Nasa scientists believe they have found a way to spot osteoporosis bone loss at the earliest stages of the disease.

The International Energy Agency has infuriated environmentalists with a report on what it calls the "golden age" of gas.

The idea of a distinctive "Tudor era" in English history is a misleading invention, an Oxford University historian argues.

A new earthquake jolts the Emilia region in northern Italy, killing at least 10 people, local media say.

A study of more than 300 Neolithic skeletons suggests evidence of "hereditary inequality" among farmers 7,000 years ago, researchers claim.

Mathematicians suggest that the reason bubbles in stout beers such as Guinness sink is simply down to shape of a standard pint glass.