A method to establish the pecking order within a group of chamber musicians has been established by scientists.

Farmers getting public grants should be forced to capture water on their land to prevent floods downstream, environmentalists say.

Stem cells researchers are heralding a "major scientific discovery", with the potential to start a new age of personalised medicine.

A telescope to find thousands of planets beyond our Solar System is the hot favourite for selection as Europe's next medium-class space science mission.

Genes that cause disease in people today were picked up through interbreeding with Neanderthals, a major study suggests.