The British government commits substantial investment into the world's biggest environmental monitoring programme.

The UK's space funding body is to assess a proposal to send a British lunar spacecraft called MoonLite.

Cancer drug research is entering a new era which will mean more successful drugs for patients, says a charity.

Leading physicists have told the BBC that long-term research is under threat because of a shortage of funding.

Scientists and engineers fear the UK is about to turn its back on Kopernikus, one of Europe's flagship space projects.

People are well used to seeing performance enhancing drugs in the world of sport, but now chemical enhancement is spreading to the world of academia as students go to extreme lengths to get the right grades.

North Wales Police say they have no plans to remove the word "police" and leave only the Welsh "heddlu" on vehicles.

Industry calls on the UK government to invest more in Kopernikus, the world's biggest environmental monitoring project.

The University of Northampton signs a deal with Abbey National to help support scholarships.

The struggle to finance doctoral studies may be harmful to UK academia, it is argued.

Katrina Manson reports on the residents of a ghetto in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, who are enthusiastically paying tax.

The vast computer network p developed to analyse the colossal amounts of data flowing from the LHC.

Sheffield Sharks sign former MK Lions guard Sherman Rivers and centre Matt Gorman.

A northerner and a southerner give their views on a report suggesting that some northern towns are "beyond revival".

A-level students unhappy with their results face an array of choices which should not be rushed, say experts.

The Ministry of Defence tests robots that can identify military threats in urban areas.

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A group of petrolhead students are racing their very own F1 style car against the best in Europe

A university department caught pressurising students in an official survey is to be excluded from this year's league table. Sean Coughlan reports

It is 20 years since a key scientific paper appearing to support the basic theory of homeopathy appeared in a leading journal.