The latest stories from the Science & Environment section of the BBC News web site.
Updated: 1 hour 6 min ago
May 3, 2013 - 2:29am
The world's most dedicated conservationists have been recognised at the annual Whitley Fund for Nature awards.
May 2, 2013 - 10:48pm
Scientists in the US have created a robot the size of a fly that is able to perform the agile manoeuvres of the ubiquitous insects.
May 2, 2013 - 6:55pm
Salvaging a rare WWII Dornier plane from the seabed
May 2, 2013 - 6:06pm
Is greening Africa's Sahel region an answer to quelling terrorism?
May 2, 2013 - 3:19pm
Pupils at many state-funded schools in England miss out on practical science experiments because of a lack of basic equipment, a report suggests.
May 2, 2013 - 12:05pm
Scientists design a flying robot the size of a fly that is able to perform the agile manoeuvres of the insect that inspired its design.
May 2, 2013 - 11:13am
Stock exchanges around the world are finding new technologies to help make trades a few crucial milliseconds faster.
May 2, 2013 - 4:56am
Bees on knees as bed bugs boom
May 2, 2013 - 1:26am
Timelapse footage released by the space agency Nasa shows a solar eruption taking place around the edge of the sun.
May 1, 2013 - 6:34pm
The EU needs a huge investment in infrastructure if it is to deliver green, cheap and secure energy, UK peers claim.
May 1, 2013 - 4:24pm
Researchers say that newly discovered bones suggest the first permanent English settlers in North America turned to cannibalism.
May 1, 2013 - 11:31am
A digital camera that functions like an insect's compound eye - making use of 180 tiny lenses - is developed by US scientists.
May 1, 2013 - 8:03am
US scientists have developed RFID-enabled paper that could be used to create banknotes that are easy to authenticate.
May 1, 2013 - 7:18am
Satellite images reveal that 2,275 homes were destroyed during a military raid to hunt down militant Islamists in the northern Nigerian town of Baga last month, a rights group says.
May 1, 2013 - 3:00am
The sticky challenge of bonding supercar parts together
May 1, 2013 - 2:42am
IBM scientists use a few dozen atoms as stars in their film A Boy and his Atom, which has garnered the title of world's smallest movie.
May 1, 2013 - 12:48am
A material called boron nitride - originally touted as useful for next-generation electronics - turns out to be a high-performance pollutant "sponge".
April 30, 2013 - 9:40pm
The Tree council launch their annual woodland festival
April 30, 2013 - 9:06pm
Scientists find lab-dwelling fruit fly maggots will eat one another - a discovery that could shed light on the biology of cannibalism.
April 30, 2013 - 7:10pm
Women may be more vulnerable to smoking-related diseases than men, a study of 600,000 medical records suggests.
