Brain scans have given a China-US team of scientists fresh insights into how we read.

Criminologists find four distinct types of "family annihilator" from an analysis of newspaper crime reports from 1980 to 2012.

Ostriches show that the long-necked sauropod dinosaurs may not have been as flexible as previously thought, scientists say.

In a world first, 1,000 ants are being fitted with tiny radio transmitters in an attempt to understand how they commute between their vast network of nests.

US scientists describe a new animal living in the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador - the first new mammal carnivore species to be identified in the Western hemisphere in 35 years.

Europe's biggest ever telecommunications satellite switches on its innovative British payload to begin a month of testing.