Eighteen years of satellite data reveal an acceleration in the thinning of many of Antarctica's floating ice shelves.

A team of experts says a mixture that included organic cat litter forced the closure of the only underground nuclear waste repository in the US.

US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are about to undertake a 12-month tour of duty on the International Space Station.

A pledge by the Greens to double science funding contrasts with the statements offered by five other party leaders, answering a call to set out their policies on science.

The genetic code of "an entire nation" has effectively been deduced, say researchers in Iceland.