Major expedition targets Thwaites Glacier

A research cruise gets under way as part of the biggest ever US-UK joint venture in…

SeaWorld Orlando orca whale Kayla dies after illness

SeaWorld says Kayla, aged 30, "inspired generations of guests and employees to care and learn".

Fast food giants under fire on climate and water usage

Investors are calling on KFC, McDonalds and others to cut warming gases from their dairy and…

Periodic table turns 150

How much do you know about the iconic symbol of science pinned to every classroom wall?

‘Welcome to my high-fashion, trash shopping mall’

Anna Bergstrom runs a shopping mall in Sweden where everything for sale is recycled. Her goal…

Lakes ‘skating on thin ice’ as warming limits freeze

Thousands of lakes are set to lose their ice cover within a generation due to rising…

MoD backs satellite ‘origami radar antennas’

The UK's Ministry of Defence approaches an Oxford start-up to help design a sovereign satellite radar…

GM chickens lay eggs to help fight cancer

Researchers have genetically modified chickens to lay eggs which contain drugs that fight cancer.

Norfolk study shows new ditches could help improve rivers

Pollution from farmers' fields that endangers fish is cut by a university-backed project.

Antarctic Weddell expedition targets Shackleton’s lost ship

The coming days will see an attempt to locate the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance…