How will the new intelligent breed of ROVs benefit us?

A new infrared process developed by German researchers is helping scientists in Berlin work out where and when pieces of music and art were created

A veterinarian with a tranquiliser gun is the only hunter in this Kenyan wildlife reserve. The quarry is a female elephant in Tsavo National Park

A recent study from Brazil claims that genetically modified mosquitoes can be used in the fight against an insect that spreads Zika and other

Poliomyelitis – or polio – could be gone by 2018, according to the latest data from the World Health Organisation. Only seven cases have been

Archaelogists ignite the heated debate by suggesting the holy book might date from much further back in history

A tiny wafer piece of technology could be the future face of interstellar exploration. The so-called “nanocraft” contains cameras, photon thrusters

Most diabetics need a finger prick test several times a day to determine whether their blood sugar level is under control. But the developers of this

It’s time for celebration after a three-month break for maintenance. The largest particle accelerator in the world is back in business. This time

Research shows evidence that electrical brain stimulation improves the recovery of stroke patients.

It has taken 30 years of loving restoration to save the early Christian art of the 6th century Basilica di Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome. Nestling at

Europe’s largest floating solar farm is ready to switch on. Built on a reservoir, (the Queen Elizabeth II), near Heathrow airport in Britain, the

Last month was the hottest February ever recorded. Attributed to human-caused global warming, this is a constant trend and consequences can be seen

What would we do for food in the event of a global disaster, such as climate change or nuclear war? Well that’s where the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Was there ever life on the red planet? That is one of the major scientific questions of our time, and the European Space Agency is searching for an

Elephants enjoy a good marula fruit as much as anyone. But at the Kruger National Park in South Africa their love of marula is becoming something of

Conservationists in Scotland are watching the march of the grey squirrel northward with considerable alarm. They believe the red squirrel, indigenous

The European Space Agency-developed satellite Sentinel-3A, recently launched from Plesetsk in Russia, has started its in-orbit Earth observation in