Details are emerging of plans to pay farmers who manage their land in a way that helps prevent flooding in towns and cities.

British-born astronaut Piers Sellers tells of living life at "20 times normal speed" after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

A tree frog that feeds its young unfertilised eggs and was thought to have died out more than a century ago has been rediscovered in India.

Scientists say the Venus flytrap controls its digestion process by gauging the number of times a struggling insect touches its trigger hairs.

A Jurassic sea beast found in a Cambridgeshire quarry could prove to be a new species of plesiosaur, scientists say.

Images from a microscope of healthy and infected algae inspires the designs of a Scottish-based textiles producer.