Researchers in Edinburgh say they have solved the mystery of why some chickens hatch out half-male and half-female.

Politicians look away as Cyprus dies of drought

The dawning age of the agricultural automatons

Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU backs the plan.

The European brown bear's love of electricity and telegraph poles is helping scientists gain new insights into its behaviour.

A woman who lives in a remote Georgian village is claiming to be the world's oldest person at 130 years old. Antisa Khvichava claims she was born in ...

The cursed bread of Pont-Saint-Esprit 50 years ago has turned out to have been a CIA mind control experiment. It happened in 1951, a quiet little vill...

The Chinese space agency are planning several new endeavours in the near future including their own space station. The first module of their Tiangong ...

The UN secretary general asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate science body.

EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover.

Mystery surrounds the deaths of 75 starlings which fell from the sky on to the driveway of a Somerset house.

Environmentalists and the EU lock horns over biofuels

The science spokesmen of the three main political parties cross swords on the issue of UK research funding.

The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo, scientists discover.

A contest held to find out what the general public would say to an alien has produced some unusual responses. Some of the replies were surprisingly bl...