The Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned.

Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, according to Italian scientists.

The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say.

Research shows some EU countries "import" about a third of their carbon emissions from developing countries.

A plant-eating predator that preys on aggressive superweed Japanese knotweed is to be given a trial release in England.

Skynet 5, the UK's single biggest space project, is to get a fourth satellite to up the bandwidth available to British forces.

Former Labour and Conservative science ministers challenge the next UK government to maintain investment in science.

A Tory-backed report urges incentives for schools and tax breaks for researchers to raise the profile of science.

The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo, scientists discover.

A never-before-seen reaction in nanotubes could make for batteries that pack a mighty punch, say researchers.

Whales and tuna tied up in Eurotangle

Can all species live side by side in unique ecosystem?

UK Skynet: Not to be confused with The Terminator

The UK's foray into bio-control breaks important ground

One of the loneliest flowers on Earth in all its glory

Secrets the coming missions to Jupiter could reveal

Commercial and political interests are abusing historical whaling rights of indigenous people.

Once a species becomes extinct, they are quickly forgotten and the activities that led to their demise continue regardless.

Chameleon have a hidden advantage as hunters, a ballistic tongue that works well in the cold.

Two herdsmen are jailed for killing a rare snow leopard in China.

Scientists may have identified the first specks of interstellar dust in material collected by the Nasa Stardust spacecraft.

An international panel of experts has endorsed the idea that an asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs.

The government is promising to put in place measures to protect the future funding of physics and astronomy in the UK.

The Met Office stops publishing seasonal forecasts after it came in for criticism for failing to predict extreme weather.

There are more genes in the microbial flora in our gut than in the rest of our bodies, scientists report.

One of our closest primate relatives, the bonobo, prefers to share its food rather than dine alone, scientists report.

The UK Met Office says evidence that human activity is causing climate change is stronger now than in a 2007 assessment.

There are growing concerns about the future of the Lough Neagh eel fishery and the hundreds of jobs it supports.

Two tiger cubs are found dead, apparently after being poisoned, at a national park in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

A frog species thought to have been extinct for more than three decades has been sighted in farmland in Australia.