A US professor launches Bigshot, a build-it-yourself camera, in an effort to teach children how its underlying technologies work.

Scientists in the Philippines are weeks from submitting a genetically modified variety of rice to the authorities for biosafety evaluations.

A "bus-sized lump" of food fat mixed with wet wipes has formed in a drain under Kingston, Surrey.

A consortium of companies will try to establish the business case for a reusable space plane in a new European Space Agency (Esa) funded study.

Arrays of tiny spikes can clean oil from water, mimicking the way cacti pull water from air.