Bats are finding a surprising haven in abandoned Israeli bunkers, researchers say.

Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study warns.

Mapping fishing's global footprint - and deciding what to do about it

Researchers prepare pairs of matter and anti-matter particles in a bid to finally resolve whether anti-matter repels normal matter in a kind of "anti-gravity".

An 11m-wide asteroid passed within 60,000km of Earth on Friday, making it one of the 20 closest recorded approaches to our planet.

Scotland is to become the first part of the UK to offer a pollution alert system which could be incorporated into weather forecasts.

While America is running down its manned space programme - further north - two Canadian students have shown that flying into space does not always have to be rocket science.