The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

The Huxleys – a scientific dynasty

Seabirds have stomachs full of plastic

The Science Show celebrates 49 years

New chemical reaction promises to slash price of some pharmaceuticals

Merlin meets Dr Crispy

Fire destroying the Amazon, northern hemisphere forests and a tropical island suffers drought.

Biodiversity crucial on land, in rivers and in our guts

One billion people at risk as temperatures rise, sex genes, Shackleton VR and tennis

Stanford University: the great university with a dark side

The deep dark ocean – Exploring the abyss

The world's largest underground lab and the hunt for dark matter

The hunt for a crucial update to Einstein's revolutionary theories

The lab listening to Earth's mysterious seismic rumbles

Molecules with their own fingerprint

Paul Ehrlich - memoir traces science, activism and concerns for the planet

Age of Monotremes including three new genera

Are our tall forests really being saved?

Big savings possible for the world’s ships

Charcoal reveals secrets of first humans in Australia