Researchers show the "uncrackable codes" of quantum cryptography can be sent on standard broadband fibres - paving the way for a boom in the technology.

Bats may be the source of a new Sars-like virus which killed a man in Saudi Arabia, according to an analysis of the coronavirus' genome.

One of the UK's pioneering computers, known as the Witch, has been restored to working order at the National Museum of Computing.

A typewriter produced at a north Wales factory, which its makers say is the last to be built in the UK, is donated to the Science Museum in London.

Member states of the European Space Agency (Esa) meet in Italy to determine the organisation’s programmes and budget.

Thieves use power saws to cut out and steal a series of ancient carvings sacred to Native Americans from a California cliff side.

China agrees to launch a communications satellite for the Democratic Republic of Congo within the next three years.

The UN's weather agency the World Meteorological Organization says concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2011.