Health experts warn homeowners to take measures to prevent "huge numbers" of rats flushed out by the floods re-establishing themselves.

A new charity taking over responsibility for canals and rivers in England and Wales is being officially launched.

Researchers use lasers, X-rays and accelerometers to find our what is going on with the "kitchen chemistry" experiment with corn flour and water.

South Korea says it may reverse a controversial plan to resume whaling for "scientific research" if other options to study the mammals are available.

A legal bid to block badger culling in England, which the government sees as a way of tackling cattle TB, fails in the High Court.

Two cricket-like species are interbreeding, scientists say, because females of one species “sexually cannibalise” males of the other.

Basking sharks off the islands of Coll, Tiree and Hyskeir are to be satellite tagged and tracked by scientists.

Sir David Attenborough warns that butterfly populations may suffer this year because of recent wet weather.