A government consultation on whether to change the rules governing how contractors deal with protected species when developing sites ends this week.

Scientists may be closer to revealing the route taken by Hannibal as he crossed to Alps to attack ancient Rome.

Vitamin D supplements may help people with a failing heart, a study suggests.

Scientists say they have kept a pig heart alive in a baboon for more than two years.

An expedition gets under way to drill into the Chicxulub Crater, the deep scar made in the Earth's surface by the asteroid that hastened the end of the dinosaurs.