Forensic science standards risk slipping after work was transferred to in-house police labs and private firms, the spending watchdog warns.

A key report says fracking should not go ahead at two sites in Lancashire.

By etching grooves into metal with a high-powered laser, physicists create a surface that repels water to the extent that droplets bounce away.

US scientists say they have taken the first step towards making "safer" GMOs that cannot spread in the wild using synthetic biology.

Researchers have decoded ancient recordings from fragments of an asteroid dating back billions of years to the start of the Solar System.