European Union states are to vote shortly on a proposed ban on pesticides linked to bee deaths in scientific studies.

New strains of the parasite that causes malaria are developing a resistance to the drug most widely used against the disease.

The spaceplane being developed by UK billionaire Sir Richard Branson makes its first powered flight, igniting its rocket engine to go supersonic above California's Mojave Desert.

The European Space Agency says its flagship Herschel telescope, the most powerful infrared observatory ever put in orbit, has run out of coolant and stopped working.

US-based researchers test pairing a robotic snake with a search-and-rescue dog in a simulated exercise in a collapsed building.