Nearly half of all state schools in England do not send any girls on to study A-level physics, a study by the Institute of Physics finds.

A powerful rocket developed for the Bloodhound 1,000mph car project is to be tested in Newquay, Cornwall.

A website is calling on citizen scientists to help researchers monitor and record Europe's bat population.

The last native speaker of the Cromarty fisherfolk dialect in the Highlands has died at the age of 92.

Proposals to merge the British Antarctic Survey and National Oceanography Centre "could harm science research", it is claimed.

Flying robots that see and smell like bees could emerge from a £1m project to mimic the insect's brain on computer.

A company which supplied a 3D printer to a US group planning to print a gun have revoked their licence.

Experts say they can find no convincing evidence to show that taking vitamin D supplements will fend off a cold.