The drought caused by the sizzling summer of 1976 caused permanent changes to British forests, say researchers.

Scientists at Imperial College London have designed a concept mission to land astronauts on Mars and return them to Earth.

A new species of the mysterious "Hero Shrew" has been discovered in Africa which sheds new light into the evolutionary changes of this unique strong shrew.

Thousands of galahs and cockatoos flock to a town in Queensland, Australia, causing power cuts and disrupting residents, its mayor says.

Scientists have confirmed one of the rarest phenomena of decay in particle physics, found about three times in every billion collisions.

Scientists are warning that rising emissions of methane in the Arctic waters could cost the world trillions of dollars.

The genome of one of the world's key commercial crops, the oil palm, is sequenced by researchers.