How social networking has changed life in the Antarctic

A massive scientific drilling mission off Antarctica's eastern coast turns up evidence of palm trees during a warm period 53 million years ago.

Three studies back the theory that tumour growth is fuelled by cancer stem cells.

A British robotic sub has photographed a vast tract of deep ocean floor some 560km southwest of Lands End.

UK scientists are to train Iraqis on how to dispose of the remnants of chemical weapons created under Saddam Hussein's regime.

Protecting mangroves to lock carbon away in trees may be an economic way to curb climate change, research suggests.

The deep dive of Argentina's imperial cormorant to catch fish is captured on video by researchers.

Both of the experiments hunting for the Higgs boson, purported to be the source of mass in the Universe, claim much higher certainty that the particle exists.

Councils in Wales could be forced to change the way they collect waste for recycling in order to comply with European rules, BBC Wales learns.

Researchers investigate giant damselflies

The days when kids' chemistry kits contained cyanide

Picture gallery of the plants that grow faster, higher and stronger

David Cameron is to announce the setting-up of a £10m science research centre on the site of the Olympic drug-testing laboratories.

The earliest unambiguous evidence for modern human behaviour is discovered by an international team of researchers in a South African cave.

Panoramas of some of the best loved parts of Britain's canal network will soon be viewable from your home computer.

BBC News visited the Royal Institution's Young Scientist Centre in London, where manager Dave Porter showed some of the experiments that could be conducted with chemistry sets past and present.

The US hosts talks with other countries opposed to a new EU carbon tax on airlines, hoping to find an alternative.

Scientists create the first virtual organism - living, growing and dying entirely within a computer program

Scientists in the United States have identified a new strain of influenza in harbor seals that could pose a threat to human and animal health.

A boom in the use of micro wind turbines could be halving bat numbers in areas where they are put up, new research has suggests.

India's Supreme Court allows the giant tanker Exxon Valdez, which was involved in one of the world's worst oil spills, to be dismantled.

BBC presenter Chris Packham encounters arctic foxes

A 10,000 volt electric sprayer, which fires out a stream of heart cells, could be the latest tool in mending broken hearts.

A chef catches what is thought to be the largest freshwater fish - weighing more than 10 stone - ever to be landed in the UK.