As many as 75 people working at the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria and are receiving treatment.

Scientists who claimed to have found a pattern in the sky left by the super-rapid expansion of space just fractions of a second after the Big Bang say they are now less confident of their result.

Tiny nematode worms "stop ageing" when they are starved and can go on to live twice as long as normal, a new study shows.

Europe's new Swarm space mission starts making maps of Earth's magnetic field with its high-precision instruments.

Presenting food like a work of art rather than arranging it neatly or piled on a plate adds to the flavour, say scientists.