A contract to build the UK's first nuclear plant in a generation is "within weeks" of completion, Energy Minister Michael Fallon tells the Financial Times.

The health of the world’s oceans is deteriorating even faster than scientists previously thought, a report says.

Quantum computers and science that could enable mobile phone shoe chargers are among the top physics spin-offs chosen by a leading magazine.

Honeybees' ability to find flowers could be hampered by a chemical in diesel exhaust, say scientists.

Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has a new leak of radioactive water after workers overfilled a storage tank, its operator says.