One of the most distinctive features in the Solar System is no more than 100 million…
Author: BBC News - Science & Environment
Swimming with sharks
The shark, believed to be one known as Deep Blue, weighs 2.5 tonnes and is nearly…
Climate change: Is nuclear power the answer?
How green is nuclear power and what are the other options?
The coffees you’ve never heard of which face extinction
Of 124 coffees in the world, we only drink two, but we need to protect all…
Giant ice disk appears in Presumpscot River, Westbrook
The approximately 91m (298ft) wide frozen slab formed naturally and has been slowly spinning.
Cairns catastrophe
Two months ago, a record-breaking heatwave devastated Australia's population of spectacled flying foxes.
World’s loneliest frog finds a possible mate
The world's loneliest frog, known as Romeo, finds a possible mate after water frogs found in…
World’s ‘loneliest’ frog gets a date
Scientists find a Juliet for water frog, Romeo, once thought to be the last of his…
Cern plans even larger hadron collider for physics search
The Future Circular Collider could be Europe's £20bn successor to the existing Large Hadron Collider.
China’s Moon mission sees first seeds sprout
The seeds, inside a sealed container, are the first plants ever grown on the Moon's surface.