Nobel Prize winner John O'Keefe warns the government that polices on immigration and animal research are risking Britain's scientific standing.

Investigations begin at a Madrid hospital where a Spanish nurse is the first person known to have contracted the Ebola virus outside West Africa.

The 2014 Nobel Prize for physics is won by trio of scientists in Japan and the US for the invention of blue light emitting diodes (LED).

Injecting trees with a concentrated form of garlic might help save trees in the UK from deadly diseases.