Scientists reveal new insights into how the Gulf of Mexico's natural processes degraded oil-related compounds after the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Changes to their surroundings can trigger "rapid evolution" in species as they adopt traits to help them survive in the new conditions, a study shows.

Men with prostate cancer and an inherited BRCA2 gene mutation have the most aggressive form of disease, research reveals.

Scientists say they have traced the root genetic cause of leukaemia back to life in the womb.

Syria rejects what it calls an attempt by the UN to broaden a probe into the alleged use of chemical weapons in the country's conflict.

A camera able to take 3D pictures up to one kilometre away has been developed in Edinburgh.

RSPB Scotland says the death of a golden eagle shot near the Southern Upland way last year is a conservation "disaster".

A tent that blocks light on a sunny day and becomes transparent and waterproof on a dim rainy one could be an outcome of research by US materials scientists.