The original targets for culling badgers are changed as new, more accurate information on population numbers becomes available.

Governments forced to rescue the world's banking system are being warned by the OECD that there will be no bailout if there is a climate crisis.

An official strategy is due to be unveiled that aims to protect the UK's broadleaved woodlands.

The brain has a critical window for language development between the ages of two and four, brain scans suggest.

The risks of stroke, heart and circulatory disease are higher in areas which have a lot of aircraft noise, researchers have found.

A new genetics study challenges some previous theories on the maternal ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews.

The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who "took the chemical experiment into cyberspace".

China has criticised the US space agency Nasa over its decision to bar Chinese scientists from attending a conference in the United States.