Plan devised after consultation with employers after 40% of pupils get top mark in Sats

Letter: Warning that Britain should prepare for global warming of four degrees should not lead to defeatism

Alan Pickup: Provided that our weather cooperates, this could be the best week of the year for astronomy enthusiasts

Rarer Cancers Forum found hundreds of cases of patients denied drugs recommended by their doctors

The Great Salt Lake is so briny that swimmers bob in the water like corks, and, for reasons scientists cannot explain, it is laden with toxic mercury....

The spacecraft prepares for a close encounter with Saturn's geyser-spewing moon.

This image commemorates the telescope's 100,000 orbit.

(AP) -- By the time he graduated from MIT, Jeff Ma already had led a life many guys dream about. His card-counting prowess at blackjack tables during wild weekends in Las Vegas and Atlantic City won him and his college buddies millions of dollars, inspiring a best-selling book and the recent movie "21."

Reuters - U.S. average retail gasoline prices fell over the past two weeks and could ease further in coming weeks if the price of crude oil keeps dropping, according to the latest nationwide Lundberg...

AP - The stinky, steaming air that escapes from a car's tailpipe could help us use less...

As people age, their cells become less efficient at getting rid of damaged protein — resulting in a buildup of toxic material that is especially pronounced in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Invisibility cloaks get a step closer to realization, with the demonstration of a new material that can bend (visible) light the 'wrong' way for the first time in three dimensions.

LiveScience.com - Scientists have taken another step toward the goal of rendering objects invisible using high-tech cloaks that redirect light.

Controlling body weight is a complicated process, as any frustrated dieter might attest. But as scientists continue to investigate the brain's intricate neurocircuitry and its role in maintaining energy balance, they are forming a clearer picture of the myriad events that lead to weight gain and weight loss.

Researchers may have found a way to halt the biological clock which slows down our bodies over the decades.

LiveScience.com - Once any starting gun is fired at an Olympic event in Beijing, every split second counts to the elite athletes. And that's where blood doping comes in, particularly in endurance sports.

Swiss carnivores will breathe a sigh of relief after producers told Swiss media Sunday that the country's national sausge -- the cervelat -- has been "saved."

In Senegal, villagers have always known about the health benefits of baobab fruit, which only now have been discovered by Europe in what could spell magic for localities like Fandene.

Beijing will remain hazy, hot and humid with a possibility of showers during the first week of Olympic competition, weather reports for the capital predicted Saturday.

It used to be a national joke that New Zealand had 20 times more sheep than people.

(AP) -- Jorge Saavedra's moment of truth came in the middle of an impassioned speech to 5,000 people about the paltry amount of money being spent to stop the spread of AIDS among gay men. The Mexican federal official paused, then said publicly for the first time that he was gay.

(AP) -- One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed.

Security specialists said Saturday that hackers are taking increasing aim at iPhones and Macintosh computers as the hot-selling Apple devices gain popularity worldwide.

Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center will soon begin researching how a lack of trust in formal medicine is contributing to disproportionately higher mortality rates in Latino HIV patients than in white HIV patients across the country.