Strategy to grow UK space sector
The UK space industry could be employing thousands more skilled workers and turning over up to £40bn a year, a report claims.

Badger culls 'not cost effective'
New research suggests that badger culling is unlikely to be a cost-effective way of controlling bovine tuberculosis in cattle.

Finns host Baltic clean-up talks
Leaders from Baltic countries meet in Finland to discuss how to clean up what is said to be the world's most polluted sea.

India defers first GM food crop
India defers the cultivation of what would have been its first genetically modified vegetable crop because of safety concerns.

Season shifts 'alter food chains'
The earlier arrival of spring in the UK appears to be throwing food chains out of synchronisation, a study suggests.

Atom-smasher yields first result
The spray of subatomic particles from the Large Hadron Collider's record-smashing December experiments has been analysed.

How a quantum physics trick may make smartphones even smarter
A quantum physics trick is set to give smartphones and hand-held devices pressure-sensitive switches and touchscreens.

Thinking small
How communities can lead the way on climate change

Green pounds
Eco-towns earmarked for government cash

Robo-soldiers
Can 'well-behaved' robots make the battlefield safer?

Sea drifters
Colourful images of plankton in the world's oceans

Copenhagen - the Munich of our times?
The Copenhagen Climate Accord was a "failure of historic proportions" and hardly worth the paper it's printed on.

We cannot buy Earth more time
Global economic growth, in its current form, cannot continue if nations are serious about curbing climate change.

Webs catching water drops
The secrets that allow spider webs to capture water from the air.

Insects migrate in wind highways
Migrating insects use highways in the sky to speed their journey.

Enceladus water story reinforced
The Cassini probe returns yet more data to back up the idea of a sub-surface sea on Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Shuttle makes final night flight
The US space agency (Nasa) has launched its shuttle Endeavour on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Genes reveal 'biological ageing'
Scientists say they have pinpointed gene variants that might show how fast people's bodies are ageing.

Dynamic Pluto revealed in images
Images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the icy dwarf planet Pluto undergoes dramatic seasonal changes.

Dinosaur footprint haul in China
Scientists in China say they have discovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, all facing in the same direction.

Climate scepticism 'on the rise'
The British public has become increasingly sceptical about climate change, a poll for BBC News suggests.

Russia 'dumped waste in Baltic'
The Russian military dumped nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s, Swedish media reports say.

Embattled climate chief supported
India gives its full support to embattled climate change chief Rajendra Pachauri, under attack over recent scientific errors.