Tests on three mummies shed new light on the Inca ritual of child sacrifice, suggesting victims were sedated with drugs and alcohol.

Researchers say that the recent spell of warm weather has seen a rapid increase in jellyfish blooms around Britain's coasts.

Horse chestnut trees infested with foliage-damaging leaf miners are not at greater risk from a disease that often kills infected trees, a study shows.

Scientists have grown rudimentary teeth out of the most unlikely of sources, human urine.

The BBC has topped a list of the 10 best websites for science news.

The Olympics and Jubilee celebrations may have contributed to "small improvements" in people's happiness in the UK last year, the Office for National Statistics says.

Australian Feliks Zemdegs has claimed the world title for solving the Rubik's Cube at a competition in Las Vegas

RSPB Scotland is finalising plans to restore vast tracts of peat bog in the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland.