The socioeconomic shocks following the collapse of the Soviet Union also affected the region's wildlife, a study suggests.

A cross-party committee of MPs urges the government to do more to protect dairy farmers from sharp falls in milk prices.

US scientists are asking the public to send in soil samples that can be screened for compounds that could be used to make vital new drugs to fight deadly infections and cancer.

Doctors have carried out the first organ transplant from a newborn in the UK, giving a dead baby's kidneys and liver cells to two separate recipients.

An X-ray scanning technique allows physicists to read letters from a fragile, burnt scroll dug from beneath Mount Vesuvius - without unrolling it.