BBC Inside Out follows the badger vaccination team in Cornwall as they test whether vaccination could be an effective alternative to culling.

The trade in bees used for honey or to pollinate crops could have a devastating impact on wild bees and other insects, say scientists.

Rapid progress in genetics is making "designer babies" more likely and society needs to be prepared, leading scientists have told the BBC.

The inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk has shared video footage of the moment his SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crashed into a floating sea platform.

Thermal imaging filming techniques by BBC Winterwatch have revealed the nocturnal behaviour of England's largest seal colony.

British scientists are preparing for the world's biggest rat cull on a sub-Antarctic island.

The way some images have been drip-fed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission at Comet 67P should prompt a rethink on data policies, the organisation's chief says.

The 12 months of 2014 were the warmest on record, with global temperatures 0.68C (1.24F) above the long-term average, say US government scientists.

A tracking study reveals the secrets of the Himalayan flight of the bar-headed goose, the world's highest bird migration.

Installing more wind turbines will make the UK's energy market more resilient to price shocks in the global fossil fuel markets, an independent report concludes.

High-resolution images taken from orbit identify the landing location of the lost Beagle2 probe, and it appears to be in one piece.

The mystery of the highest bird migration - the flight of bar-headed geese over the Himalayas - has finally been solved by scientists.

A neurodegenerative disease has been halted by harnessing the regenerative power of hibernation, scientists say.

Stepping up cattle testing is a far more effective bovine TB control strategy than shooting badgers, according to computer modelling work.

German researchers have built shoe-sized devices that harvest power from the act of walking.

Scientists in Edinburgh investigate the effects of ageing on the brain as the population continues to grow older.

The rate at which the global oceans have risen in the past two decades is more significant than previously recognised, say US-based scientists.

Crew members were evacuated from a US segment of the International Space Station after an ammonia leak was suspected.

Rising demand for gold is leading to the loss of tropical forests in South America, scientists warn.

The American space agency's Curiosity rover smashes up the latest rock it was trying to drill on Mars.