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US biochemical engineer Frances Arnold takes the million-euro Millennium Technology Prize for pioneering 'directed evolution'.

Approval for fracking in North Yorkshire raises the prospect of the controversial technique being allowed at other sites and restarts an intense debate.

Five glimpses inside China's scientific revolution

Virtual reality technology used in the gaming industry could be utilised to recreate crime scenes for jurors, researchers claim.

Wu Pinggui talks to the BBC after having an operation to transplant a pig's cornea into his eye.

The scientist and author discusses his legacy - and giving up Twitter

Chinese drinkers may have been brewing beer as many as 5,000 years ago, new research suggests.

Darren Soh, a landscape photographer, creates a composite image that captures the beauty of Singapore's lightning storms.

The ban on GM crops by European countries should be reassessed, the president of UK science body the Royal Society has said.

After a successful bid to frack for shale gas in a North Yorkshire village, John Moylan explains how the process works.

Wild animals including lions, crocodiles, rattlesnakes and zebras are being kept legally on private property across the UK, licensing figures reveal.

Nobel chemistry laureate spots DNA error on Turkish banknote.

A strange sea-dwelling reptile fossil suggests there was a burst of evolution after the mass extinction 250 million years ago.

BBC science correspondent Rebecca Morelle travels to China to take a close up tour of the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope - or Fast for short.

India launches an unmanned model space shuttle into orbit, joining the race to develop reusable space crafts.

A gigantic fuel tank, originally built for NASA's space shuttle programme, is making a slow journey through the streets of Los Angeles to its new home.

They have been dubbed the killer invaders that target bees and have even caused the deaths of several people in France, but has the deadly Asian hornet made it to the UK?

Look inside a life-size model of a submarine which the Chinese hope will take humans to the very bottom of the ocean - the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific.

Deep underground, beneath Daya Bay in the south of China, scientists are hunting for the oddest particles in the cosmos - neutrinos.

Beautiful places threatened by mass tourism