An application to carry out fracking in England for the first time since a ban was lifted in 2012 is approved.

The ban on GM crops by European countries should be reassessed, the president of UK science body the Royal Society has said.

Approval for fracking in North Yorkshire raises the prospect of the controversial technique being allowed at other sites and restarts an intense debate.

Scientist and author Richard Dawkins discusses his legacy - and giving up Twitter

Two more satellites in the Galileo network are launched to orbit, putting the EU's version of GPS on course to start services at the end of the year.

US biochemical engineer Frances Arnold takes the million-euro Millennium Technology Prize for pioneering 'directed evolution'.

European scientists are working on techniques that would allow them to routinely monitor the health of corals worldwide from orbit.

The world's biggest publicly traded oil company faces a critical AGM under pressure from a broad coalition of shareholders on climate change.