Prof Sir Alec Jeffreys, who invented genetic fingerprinting in 1984, receives the world's oldest science prize, the Royal Society's Copley Medal.

Climatic change was a "key driver" behind forest disturbance increase in the 20th Century but uncertainty still surrounds the future, a study suggests.

Horses look to the ears to work out what another animal is thinking, according to a study.

Europe's long travelling satellite is set to rendezvous with one of the strangest objects in the solar system.

A Japanese scientist involved in a scandal over discredited stem cell research has been found dead in an apparent suicide.