From: BBC News on Thu, Oct 07 2010 3:07 AM

Environmentalists at the UN climate talks in the Chinese city of Tianjin have criticised China and other big developing nations for blocking a plan to cut emissions from shipping.

From: BBC News on Wed, Oct 06 2010 2:51 PM

Engineer Jem Stansfield looks at the volatile and explosive effects of nitroglycerine in slow motion.

From: BBC News on Wed, Oct 06 2010 6:04 AM

Entomology researcher Dr Ian Bedford talks about his son’s bizarre job - feeding baby spiders by sucking flies up using a rubber tube.

From: BBC News on Tue, Oct 05 2010 7:05 PM

The United Nations has a little-known agency called the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs.

From: BBC News on Mon, Oct 04 2010 8:22 PM

Chinese scientists have been analysing new data gathered from a cave in the Taihang mountains, which appears to show that man-made global warming could be having a significant effect on its weather.

From: BBC News on Mon, Oct 04 2010 1:21 PM

Dr Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy, European Co-ordinator of the Census of Marine Life Project, talks to the BBC’s Daniel Boettcher about some of the findings of the survey

From: BBC News on Thu, Sep 30 2010 3:54 PM

Astronomers have detected an Earth-like exoplanet that may have just the right kind of conditions to support life.

From: BBC News on Thu, Sep 30 2010 3:27 AM

Scientists at the University of Birmingham are studying whether or not babies can tell when people are talking to them.

From: BBC News on Mon, Sep 27 2010 3:16 AM

The UK’s first litter of Northern cheetah cubs born were born at Whipsnade Zoo recently, and their birth is largely due to a specially designed part of the animals' enclosure.

From: BBC News on Sat, Sep 25 2010 11:11 AM

The delayed Soyuz capsule carrying a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts has landed safely back on earth after six months on the International Space Station.

From: BBC News on Fri, Sep 24 2010 9:53 PM

A Canadian student inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s centuries-old sketches of an ornithopter he was the first to make a sustained flight in a human-powered, wing-flapping aircraft.

From: BBC News on Fri, Sep 24 2010 8:02 AM

David Shukman joins an exercise off Southampton to see how the UK oil industry would deal with a disaster on the scale of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

From: BBC News on Fri, Sep 24 2010 2:55 AM

Research physicist Bair Shaibonov talks about his work on the neutrino telescope at the bottom of Russia’s Lake Baikal.

From: BBC News on Thu, Sep 23 2010 1:47 AM

Forensic Entomologist Amoret Whitaker of the Natural History Museum explains how the study of the fly’s life cycle, can help homicide detectives catch murderers.

From: BBC News on Wed, Sep 22 2010 5:17 PM

A construction team has discovered a 24-foot long whale skeleton at the San Diego Zoo in California.

From: BBC News on Mon, Sep 20 2010 1:45 AM

Scientists in America are using an industrial crane to study the life cycle of some of their tallest trees.

From: BBC News on Fri, Sep 17 2010 1:21 AM

A Spanish fashion designer has come up with the concept of "spray-on clothing", thanks to some help from chemical engineers at Imperial College London.

From: BBC News on Thu, Sep 16 2010 9:15 AM

Charging a deposit for plastic and glass drinks bottles would drastically reduce litter, campaigners have said.

From: BBC News on Thu, Sep 16 2010 5:05 AM

Microsoft’s Leila Martine shows Rory Cellan-Jones the 'high graphic power' of its new web browser.

From: BBC News on Wed, Sep 15 2010 9:47 AM

The government has set out plans to license farmers in England to shoot badgers on their land, with tens of thousands of animals potentially targeted.