Hugging trees helps koalas to keep cool, a study using thermal imaging cameras reveals.

A government minister is set to challenge a "persistent and debilitating myth that girls don't do science".

The operator of a UK nuclear power station wants a key safety limit eased to allow the life of the reactor to be extended, the BBC learns.

Centenarians have found a way to beat the common diseases of old age, such as cancer and heart disease, new research suggests.

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the blind mole rat, a mammal that digs with its teeth, lives for 20 years and has never naturally developed cancer

Environmentalists are opposing the government's plans to boost roads, housing and fracking - all announced as part of the Infrastructure Bill.

Sightings of an invasive bumblebee species in Britain have reached a record high, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust says