A large LNG tanker is set to become the first such carrier to sail across the Arctic taking advantage of changing climate conditions.

Some 17,000 participants are due to attend the latest round of UN climate talks, with the controversial issue of "hot air" high on the agenda.

A Middle East particle accelerator project is making progress after years of doubts over its feasibility.

The President of the climate talks in Doha hails a "golden opportunity" to make progress as the meeting opens in the Qatari capital.

Smoking "rots" the brain by damaging memory, learning and reasoning, according to researchers at King's College London.

A study of fruit flies at Edinburgh University identifies a gene which scientists say could help solve infertility in humans.

The first nuclear site licence for 25 years is granted to Hinkley Point in Somerset.