A nine-year-old girl dies and her mother is in hospital after their car left the road and landed in an embankment.

US scientists say they have worked out how black holes emit plasma jet streams at close to the speed of light.

Health officials in China dispute US claims that Chinese imports are to blame for deaths from a blood-thinning drug.

The ancient Aztecs were sophisticated mathematicians who used symbols to represent fractions, researchers say.

A South Korean professor admits evidence he published on anti-ageing technology was fabricated.

A Catholic and an atheist film reviewer give the BBC their views on the film of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass.

Astronomers in the US unveil a new planet, the fifth in a solar system said to be not unlike our own.

Scientists say a strain of the HIV virus which predominates in the US and Europe came from Haiti in about 1969.

The leader of Poland's opposition party, Donald Tusk, is seeking support among Poles in the UK and Irish Republic.

From HG Wells to the latest Big Brother challenge, time travel has sparked the popular imagination. Now, an American scientist has broken his silence about his dream of time travel, with a book documenting his life-long struggle to build a time machine.

A new technique is helping re-animate the faces of patients with severe long-term facial paralysis, doctors say.

A leading human genome scientist says he has taken a major step towards creating life from scratch in the lab.

Scientists find the fossil of a giant penguin which lived 36 million years ago in the tropics of what is now Peru.

US biologists hope to make super-strong materials after identifying the genes behind the black widow spider's silk.

Scientists in Germany and the US say if you have a "fidget" molecule in your genes you are less likely to be fat.

An international team of scientists isolates antibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans.

Health ministers meet in London to raise awareness about the cancer threat to Africa.

Scientists in the US using new data say that up to half of the surface of Mars may contain ice.

A treatment derived from a virus can guard against middle ear infections, a study suggests.

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