The first commercially contracted re-supply mission to the International Space Station lifts off from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

The government must set a specific target for restricting carbon emissions from power generation, businesses urge in an open letter.

The barcode was patented on 7 October 1952, but it was two decades before it was first used in a US supermarket.

Two pioneers of stem cell research have shared the Nobel prize for medicine or physiology.

A teenager has had to have her stomach removed after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen, police say.

The EU aims to raise awareness of climate change with positive messages about low-carbon solutions.

Hundreds of thousands of people recently immunised against typhoid may not have full protection because of a dud vaccine that has now been recalled, warn experts.