Stock exchanges around the world are finding new technologies to help make trades a few crucial milliseconds faster.

The world's most dedicated conservationists have been recognised at the annual Whitley Fund for Nature awards.

Indigenous communities say that illegal logging and land speculators are threatening Central America's most important tropical forest.

Pupils at many state-funded schools in England miss out on practical science experiments because of a lack of basic equipment, a report suggests.

The European Space Agency's new small satellite launcher, Vega, is about to make only its second outing from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

The Solar Impulse plane, which holds records including the longest manned zero-fuel flight, begins a bid to cross the US, taking off from San Francisco.