Campaigners call for a UK criminal investigation to be brought against Trafigura for the dumping of toxic waste in Ivory Coast in 2006.

A cull of badgers in Somerset and South Gloucestershire could be reconsidered in parliament, as 100,000 people sign an e-petition to stop it.

Korean eunuchs lived far longer than uncastrated men, a study shows.

Death rates for several cancers are "set to fall dramatically" by 2030, according to Cancer Research UK.

Nasa's Curiosity rover completes its first close-contact science, examining what was expected to be a standard lump of basalt rock.

The Royal Society is arranging an event for volunteers to update the Wikipedia profiles of women in science and engineering.

Jays demonstrate "flexible tactics" by switching between storing food and stealing from other birds' stashes, scientists find.

A long-standing bid to locate the wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance could still be mounted in time for the centenary of his most famous expedition.