The divide between older and younger generations has sparked a debate about the behaviour of young people in society.

Phoenix will try sprinkling Martian soil on to an instrument in a bid to overcome problems caused by the soil's clumpy nature.

A five-year-old boy is thought to be the UK's youngest person to patent an idea after inventing a labour-saving broom.

Many medical beliefs, like the claim that we only use 10% of our brains, are untrue, say experts.

The skinhead movement is about to re-emerge in the public eye, on film and in pictures. The menace and violence linger in the memory, but is it time to reassess the culture and its appeal in a more complex way?

The face of UK news has changed forever after the London bombings, says BBC media correspondent Torin Douglas.

Medieval dentists knew how to fill cavities, spot oral cancer and even how to whiten teeth

Nasa's robotic rover Spirit has found evidence that water washed and altered rocks in the hills it has been exploring on Mars.

New Zealand assistant coach Vaughn Johnson backs their seam attack to cause plenty of trouble against England.

Nasa's rover Opportunity finds spherical soil grains on Mars, suggesting they could have been rounded by the action of water.

A Suffolk company wins an extraordinary contract to ship sand to the desert.

Spring is sprung - on distant gas giant Neptune, according to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Plastic surgeons in Mexico fear for their safety after drug traffickers turn to surgery to reshape their faces and alter their identities.

Some Darjeeling tea may not in fact be from the hill tops of India, but from neighbouring Nepal.

A Newsnight investigation has discovered that dioxin has been spread around as a direct result of a policy the government wants to promote.

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Oranges and lemons, and a splash of detergent - could this cocktail be the solution to leaves on the railway lines?

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