Without conventional fossil fuels to secure its energy demands, Japan is encouraging interest in the methane hydrate deposits in its coastal waters

Claims that large doses of B vitamins could protect against dementia are not quite as dramatic as the headlines suggest, says Jessica Hamzelou

It's invaded Australia, but the cane toad has not triggered the ecological catastrophe that some predicted

Scientific papers "ghostwritten" for drug maker Wyeth may have led to hormone replacement therapy being recommended to healthy menopausal women

If you like pictures of snowy owls and have £4 to £6 million spare, this book might be for you

The most influential Twitter feeds don't necessarily have the most followers. That's the insight given by a new technique for ranking twitterers

A mathematical-biological mixing dreamed up by code breaker Alan Turing can predict what happens when species with simple skin patterns interbreed

Google's new ability to provide full search results as you type is just the first step towards the company's plans to know your desires before you do

A two-legged dinosaur that had a fin on its back has been discovered – but nobody knows what it was for

The hallmark of the human brain – its enormous cortex – can be traced back 600 million years to the ancestor of a primitive worm