There is now optimism about the speed and scale of the remaining clean-up operation after the worst environmental disaster in US history.

An Ariane rocket has launched from French Guiana carrying two communications satellites.

Biologists Robin Lovell-Badge and Sir Ian Wilmut discuss the safety of eating meat from an offspring of a cloned animal.

Installation of the world’s largest test site for wave energy has begun off the Cornish coast.

Astronomers put together the first three-dimensional reconstruction of an exploding star.

Authorities at the port of Rotterdam are leading European efforts to crack down on the illegal export of electrical and electronic waste to the developing world.

How to trail a garden snail to find out whether the shelled molluscs have a homing instinct.

London Zoo is introducing a new male to its group of gorillas. They have been without a troop leader since the last male died in March, but keepers say it is a tricky operation.

Aid agency Oxfam has warned that the international response to what it describes as a „mega disaster” in Pakistan has been slow.

Hi-tech criminals are turning their attention from pcs to smartphones, with malicious applications designed to steal saleable personal information.