Pfizer's commitments to maintain research and jobs should it take over AstraZeneca have been dismissed as "vague".

Scientists try to understand why adult turtles select the migration destinations they do by combining ocean-current and satellite-tracking information.

The discovery of a deep-sea graveyard is shedding light on the fate of dead ocean giants, scientists report.

A ban on skippers throwing unwanted fish back into the sea may actually be bad for the environment, according to academics.

Society has become "supremely arrogant" in ignoring the importance of sleep, leading researchers have told the BBC's Day of the Body Clock.

Drinking red wine may not be as good for you as hoped, say scientists who have studied the drink's ingredient that is purported to confer good health.

The government proposes to limit the subsidies paid to large scale solar farms and boost community schemes from next April.

A US underwater investigator has said he believes he has found the wreck of the Santa Maria, the flagship of Christopher Columbus's expedition.