Scientists have discovered a gene that allows plants to grow better in low nutrient conditions and even enhance their growth through sodium uptake, according to a report published online in The EMBO Journal.

Malaria, sleeping sickness and so on lead to the death of millions of people in the world. African countries are particularly strongly hit. The expansion of Dengue fever and the recent epidemics of Chikungunya and West Nile disease illustrate the trend.

Earthquakes and explosions grab the headlines when structures are toppled, but often the Achilles’ heel of engineering is fire.

Instructions on how to make plutonium and build a nuclear reactor have been revealed in sealed, World War II research papers which were opened at the Royal Society on Thursday 31 May 2007 to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the neutron discovery.

Some ancient-DNA evidence has offered new clues to a very cold case: the disappearance of the last woolly mammoths, one of the most iconic of all Ice Age giants.

Anyone connected by Internet can now see planet Mars better than at any time in history, through the eye of HiRISE, the most powerful camera ever to orbit another planet.

Most people have heard absolute zero described as the lowest possible temperature, but what does that mean? Is it really the coldest cold, or just the lowest temperature that we can measure?

This year’s list highlights three critical man-made threats: political conflict, unchecked urban and industrial development, and, for the first time, global climate change.

A new finding by an undergraduate scientist and a senior bee researcher gives new insight on the weird, leaderless organization of honeybee colonies, which exhibit behavior rivaling human cultures in social complexity.

A remarkable new long-necked, gliding reptile discovered in 220 million-year old sediments of eastern north America is reported by scientists.