9 hrs ago

Scientist have long attributed the success of the honey bee to the division of labour within the hive. Now they have discovered a skill performed by a specialist bee.

19 hrs ago

Scientists, who claim to have produced one of the best replicas yet of an early modern humans skull, say it is up to 20 per cent bigger than ours.

1 day ago

Robert Winston on spears, flame throwers and fax machines (Or why the dark side of our ingenuity shows we're too clever by half).

2 days ago

The mutant fish is the result of a decade-long effort by Terry Bradley, a professor of fisheries and aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island.

2 days ago

When a new TV show took Jimmy Doherty back to the Natural History Museum where he worked as a student, he discovered some tantalising secrets lurking in its vault.

2 days ago

A British soldier dives for cover as he comes under enemy fire. But amazingly he comes to no harm... because he's 3,500 miles from the front line in Afghanistan.

2 days ago

The 51 beheaded skeletons were discovered last summer near Weymouth, Dorset, during excavations for a relief road.

3 days ago

The modified 1988 Volkswagen Sirocco broke down about four times, forcing the driver - Bang Goes the Theory's Jem Stansfield - to wait on the side of the motorway.

3 days ago

The carrier bags, which are designed to break down within three years, leave behind tiny plastic particles that could harm birds, insects and mammals.

3 days ago

A computer has been developed by British scientists that can tell which one of three films a person is thinking about. In other words, it is able to access and read memories.

3 days ago

Sony demonstrated PlayStation Move today, a motion controlling system that the company hopes will challenge the popular Nintendo Wii.

4 days ago

Google is extending its Street View service to peer at 95 per cent of homes in the UK, despite criticism that it amounts to an invasion of privacy.

4 days ago

The unfortunate hound was on board Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose when the ill-fated warship sank to the bottom of the Solent on July 19, 1545.

4 days ago

Nearly 500 species of plant and animal native to England have been wiped out in the past 2,000 years - with most vanishing in the previous two centuries alone.

4 days ago

Samsung has unveiled the first sets that will capture the excitement generated by 3D films such as Avatar and Alice in Wonderland.

4 days ago

Viewers will be able to watch a range of programmes, including those from the BBC like Hustle and Hotel Babylon, on the MSN video player.

4 days ago

The most comprehensive 360degree map ever made of Britain will go online today, thanks to a mammoth undertaking by Google.

4 days ago

The Large Hadron Collider, which scientists hope will recreate the conditions from just after the Big Bang, is to shut down for a whole year.