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Most of us have to ease green issues gently into our romantic lives. While love may conquer all, it won’t survive an in-depth interrogation about a partner’s recycling habits on the first date. Once you’ve been together a few years (in my case make that eight) you reach a point in your relationship when you [...]
A major advance in transforming one kind of cell into another is reported today that will likely to render plans to clone human embryos redundant in the quest for revolutionary new treatments. By Roger Highfield.
World leaders at a food summit in Rome are facing demands for urgent action and cash, the BBC’s Stephanie Holmes says.
Bees from opposite ends of the Earth can communicate more easily than people, a discovery that suggests bees can learn a new language easily. By Roger Highfield.
A dramatic drop in the population of puffins at their main North Sea breeding site has alarmed scientists.
In the third installment of their cycling diaries, Jessica Hatcher describes the gruelling ride across the salt pans of Botswana.
A NASA-backed institute awards 12 preliminary grants in an attempt to turn science fiction into fact
In a lab originally created for the Manhattan Project, scientists are hunting for an environmentally friendly source of ethanol
In a clear sign that the UK is set to bolster its nuclear power industry, a £6 million research programme is launched to investigate reactor designs