The energy and climate change secretary is accused of "grotesque hypocrisy" ahead of a speech she will deliver about the government's plan to tackle climate change.

Scientists find the first ever four-legged snake, which lived at the time of the dinosaurs and probably dug burrows.

The number of single-use plastic bags handed out by UK supermarkets increases for the fifth year, rising to 8.5 billion.

Engineers and physicists have discovered a property of silicon which could aid the development of faster computers.

A new system that contains the explosion of bombs smuggled onto aircraft has been successfully tested.

Pluto would appear to have glaciers of nitrogen ice, the latest pictures from the New Horizons probe suggest.