The trade in bees used for honey or to pollinate crops could have a devastating impact on wild bees and other insects, say scientists.

In a case of science fiction meeting reality, microscopic machines have journeyed inside a living animal for the first time.

Rapid progress in genetics is making "designer babies" more likely and society needs to be prepared, leading scientists have told the BBC.

Genetic mutations that are associated with resistance to the frontline malaria drug are identified, scientists report.

The American space agency's Dawn spacecraft is bearing down on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.