Taking your eyes off the motorway with VR

Fed up with motorway driving? Now you can switch to virtual reality thanks to a new…

Weather: What to expect in 2018

More hurricanes? Rising temperatures? BBC meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker looks ahead to the year.

Whale people

A glimpse into the life the Inupiat, an indigenous community in Alaska.

AI early diagnosis could save heart and cancer patients

The systems will save billions of pounds by enabling the diseases to be picked up much…

Solving a problem like waste recycling

The BBC's Dan Johnson visited a plant in Southwark to see how they're dealing with recycling…

The gene editing tech that uses ‘molecular scissors’

In 2012 a form of gene editing was discovered, it is called CRISPR Cas9. It uses…

Mussel power: Bid to save rare shellfish in Wales

Young freshwater pearl mussels are being grown at a fishery in Powys

Large meteor spotted in skies across UK

People across Britain reported seeing a large greenish light streak across the sky on Sunday evening.

UK ‘faces build-up of plastic waste’

UK does not have capacity to deal with extra plastic waste after a Chinese import ban,…

Science stories coming up in 2018

The BBC's global science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle, reveals what to watch out for in the new…