Adults who lack basic science and maths skills risk being "bamboozled" and making bad decisions, according to a leading scientist.

Rich nations at UN climate talks are said to be edging towards a compromise on the thorny issue of loss and damage.

Energy giant EDF has admitted that construction of Britain's first new nuclear power plant in decades has been delayed.

Lisa Pathfinder is a fundamental physics experiment that will test the technology needed to detect gravitational waves - what are sometimes referred to as ripples in the curvature of space-time.

UN climate officials have reacted sharply to criticism that the talks to land a new global deal are going at a "snail's pace".