Russia launches the first rocket from its new Vostochny cosmodrome, following a 24-hour delay that drew the ire of President Vladimir Putin.

Scientists describe the processes that drive "ice sails" - a rare and somewhat esoteric feature of debris covered glaciers.

The largest field-study so far in to the group of pesticides called "neonicotinoids" has concluded that each acts differently on the brains of the bees.

A genetic therapy improves the vision of some patients who would otherwise have gone blind.

The EU's newest Earth observation satellite, Sentinel-1b, has returned its first radar imagery - of Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago.