Food and farming ‘needs total rethink’

A major conference examines how to limit the more damaging impacts of intensive farming systems.

Athenia: Is this the wreck of the first ship to be sunk in WW2?

The remains of a passenger liner torpedoed by a U-boat just hours into the war may…

Sputnik’s influence

For the Soviet Union, the launch of the satellite was a triumph not just for science.…

The dog with the world’s longest tongue

Meet Mochi from South Dakota, who has just bagged herself a Guinness World Record.

Nobel prize awarded for imaging molecules

Nobel chemistry prize given to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank & Richard Henderson for imaging biological molecules

The team that tracked Sputnik – and the world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile

How a British observatory played a crucial part in the Cold War.

Bird deaths: Pheasants ‘most likely species’ to die on UK roads

Pheasants are the bird species most likely to be run over on UK roads, according to…

Five plants and animals we don’t want any more of

They may not be household names, but, according to experts, they pose risks to the environment.

Einstein’s waves wins Nobel Prize

The 2017 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists for the detection of…

Prehistoric reptile’s last meal revealed

The fossil of a marine reptile from 199 million years ago gives clues to the diet…