The planet's biggest volcanoes do not need nearly as long to develop before eruption as previously thought, US research suggests.

The private Dragon cargo capsule is set to return to Earth on Thursday having spent a week attached to the International Space Station.

Great white egrets are breeding in the UK for first time at a Somerset nature reserve, after confirmation of at least one chick hatching.

A professor of chemistry at Imperial College London has been formally appointed as the new chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).