Flooding misery is continuing as rising waters put thousands of people's homes at risk across the UK, including in York city centre.

The sequence of huge earthquakes that struck off the coast of Sumatra in April may signal the creation of a new tectonic plate boundary, say scientists.

Flying backwards uses surprising little energy, according to a recent scientific study.

Mice with brittle skin, which tears off to escape predators, may offer clues to healing wounds without scars, according to US researchers.

A battery-powered car breaks the UK land-speed record for electric vehicles at Elvington airfield near York, its makers say.

An ancient Buddhist statue, recovered by a Nazi expedition in the 1930s, was originally carved from a highly valuable meteorite, say researchers.

Nasa's Curiosity rover turns up its first clear evidence of past flowing water at its landing site in Mars' equatorial Gale Crater.

The collected writings and drawings of Alfred Russel Wallace, who formulated evolutionary theory independently of Darwin, are digitised and posted online.