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Researchers say the Arctic is highly sensitive to changes in summer temperatures as ice rebound continued through 2014.

The beautiful creatures with a deadly streak

Australia's wombats are under threat from a painful and fatal skin disease known as mange.

The Philae comet lander has fallen silent, according to scientists working on the European Rosetta mission.

Fishermen in South-West England turn their boats into "massive data platforms" for a citizen science study to measure plankton levels off the UK coast.

Prof Stephen Hawking has launched a new effort to answer the question of whether there is life elsewhere in space.

Prof Stephen Hawking launches a new effort to answer the question of whether there is life elsewhere in space.

A British team has developed a system to help protect wild rhinos, which could be extinct within the next ten years, because they are hunted by poachers for their lucrative horns.

Why bother exploring the Solar System?

The American space agency's New Horizons probe returns further images of Pluto that include a view of the dwarf planet's strange icy plains.

New science minister takes a hard look at funding research

An Edinburgh company has won the UK's top engineering prize for its digital hydraulic power system.

Scottish councils may lose out on more than £44m of income over the next 20 years if changes are made to wind farm subsidies, according to a trade body.

New research suggests that mosquitoes track down something to bite using a sequence of three cues: smell, then sight, and finally heat.

Polar bears are unable to adapt their behaviour to cope with the food losses associated with warmer summers in the Arctic.

The US and Russia are among five countries to sign a deal to prevent commercial fishing in the melting Arctic sea ice near the North Pole.

A genetically modified moth could help curb a major pest of vegetable crops around the world, research suggests.

A kestrel that flew into a car's grille is released by garage mechanics.

Scientists discover a winged dinosaur - an ancestor of the velociraptor - that they say was on the cusp of becoming a bird.

Designers at Cardiff University say they have built a low-cost, zero-carbon house - just the sort of home Chancellor George Osborne once described as impossible.

Evan Davis speaks to the principal investigator on Nasa's mission to Pluto, Dr Alan Stern.

The technology in electric cars has been around for a few years, but concerns about range and price prevented many people from taking them seriously, John Maguire took one for a spin.

Pluto has mountains made of ice that are as high as those in the Rockies, images from the New Horizons probe have revealed.

Pluto has mountains made of ice that are as high as those in the Rockies, images from the New Horizons probe have revealed.

Pluto has mountains as high as those in the Rockies, new images from the New Horizons probe show.

Stephen Hawking has congratulated the New Horizons team and NASA for their successful mission to the dwarf planet Pluto.

What have we learned about Pluto so far?

The Swiss team trying to fly a solar-powered plane around the world has abandoned its effort for this year because of the damage sustained by its batteries on the last leg of its global quest.

Fracking could potentially be done safely in the UK under "rigorous regulation", but it is too early to say whether it would be "a good idea", a report says.

Are Britain's footpaths in slow decay?

A great white shark has been rescued after it was stranded on shore.

Richard Westcott goes for a ride on Britain's newest high speed train, which will replace the InterCity 125.

A signal has been received from the New Horizons probe, which soared past Pluto on Tuesday.

A signal received from the New Horizons spacecraft shows that it survived its historic encounter with Pluto.

What does rosemary do to your brain?

Tension is mounting as scientists await confirmation that a flyby of Pluto by Nasa's New Horizons probe was a success.

Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft has made the first visit to Pluto, approaching within 12,500km of the icy world.

The New Horizons probe has reached Pluto after a 10 year journey of three billion miles (4.8 billion km).

Climate change risks should be assessed in the same way as threats to national security according to a new report.

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have announced the discovery of a new particle called the pentaquark.

After a near-10-year-journey to the outer Solar System, Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft begins the most intense period of its encounter with Pluto.

Pluto has just been found to be ever so slightly bigger than we thought, having a diameter of 2,370km.

This week's flying visit to Pluto is a beginning, not an end.

Engineers say the New Horizons spacecraft is in great shape for its historic flyby of Pluto on Tuesday.

Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft is due to flyby Pluto on Tuesday and scientists are expecting it to send back the clearest ever images of the distant dwarf planet.

A network of ash detectors is to be installed across the United Kingdom to help prevent volcanic ash cloud shutting down European airspace.

Nasa's New Horizons probe returns a last look at Pluto's fascinating dark spots before they rotate out of view ahead of next week's historic flyby.

As Nasa's New Horizons probe gets ready to flyby Pluto on Tuesday, the Royal Observatory's Public Astronomer Dr Marek Kukula looks at one of the most divisive issues in modern science - Pluto's reclassification to a "dwarf planet".

The record-breaking Solar Impulse plane will be grounded in Hawaii for at least two weeks because of battery damage, making a complete round-the-world journey this year increasingly difficult.

For the first time an electric plane has successfully flown across the English Channel.