Researchers at a US lab have passed a crucial milestone on the way to their ultimate goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion.

Researchers say that the problem of plastic pollution is posing a growing threat to lakes as well as oceans.

The European Space Agency is about to dispose of its Planck Surveyor, the telescope which mapped the "oldest light" in the Universe in unprecedented detail.

'Ancient humans' used toothpicks nearly 1.8 million years ago, a study of their teeth reveals.

Peter Higgs and Francois Englert have won the Nobel prize in physics for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson, discovered at Cern in 2012.

A six-week pilot cull of thousands of badgers in west Somerset is believed to have ended.

Some species of marsupials are dying from sex after engaging in strenuous mating activities.