A new report suggests that climate change in other countries will impact the UK more quickly than rising temperatures at home.

Budding Paralympic cyclist Tom Staniford has no fat on his face or his limbs as a result of a rare genetic mutation that has finally been diagnosed by sequencing his genome.

A £50m project to attract world-class scientists to Wales makes its first appointment - a leading stem cell researcher looking at diseases of the nervous system.

New details have emerged about the air crash that killed Yuri Gagarin - the first man in space.

Controllers sever all communications with Europe's billion-euro Herschel space telescope, formally bringing to a close the observation phase of the mission.

A China-based supercomputer has been ranked the world's fastest, offering nearly double the processing speeds of the US's most powerful system.