Category: Science

The farming industry is dealt a fresh blow as the UK’s first case of bluetongue…

A US man is charged with using his prosthetic leg to smuggle three endangered iguanas…

The genetic blueprint of a parasite that causes disfiguring elephantiasis has been unravelled.

Viruses sourced from the River Cam in Cambridge may help scientists develop treatments for superbugs,…

Arctic sea ice shrank to the smallest area on record this year, researchers in the…

The UK has a 100-tonne plutonium stockpile – enough to make 17,000 bombs, the Royal…

A genetic test which may improve accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer is launched in the…

A herd of fossilised infant dinosaurs killed in a volcanic mudflow are found in China.

The numbers of one of Britain’s rarest birds, the bittern, have increased in the East…

Tests show the latest outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease is the same strain as in all…