A rare Chinese tree has flowered for the first time in 23 years at Kew's country estate in West Sussex.

Dr Andy Harland of Loughborough University analyses what new free-kick trajectory findings mean for footballers.

A metal detecting enthusiast finds what is believed to be the only intact Roman lantern made out of bronze ever discovered in Britain.

An island off Peru is making money from selling bird poo to use as organic fertiliser.

Rare weather events caused last winter's freak snow storms

Physicists explain one of football's most spectacular free-kicks, showing that Roberto Carlos's 1997 "impossible goal" was not a fluke.

Europe's Herschel space telescope spies an aging star that has surrounded itself in hot water vapour.

The remains of a huge 12,000 year old feast have been found in a cave in Northern Israel.

Fishermen from Suffolk and Essex have welcomed a new quota agreement which allows smaller boats to start catching sole again.

New pictures have emerged of the shipwreck of the Titanic, almost 25 years since it was first discovered.

An ancient reef may provide scientists with clues about what will happen to coral when sea temperatures rise.

An earthquake is recorded in the North Sea about 155 miles east of Aberdeen.

Natural selection is driving orcas, commonly known as killer whales, to evolve into two separate species, a study reveals.

A Tasmanian Devil who experts hoped was immune to a facial cancer that threatens the marsupial species is euthanised after developing tumours.

Darwin's artificial rainforest in the South Atlantic

Researchers working on trials of genetically modified crops in Norfolk have grown potatoes which resist disease.

An expedition reveals sharp new photos and video of the Titanic wreck, appearing to show the vessel is not as badly corroded as was feared.

Some 57,000 people have been forced from their homes because of dramatic floods in south-western Sudan over the past month, officials say.

One of the giant booster rockets intended to power the first stage of flight on Nasa's next rocket has been tested in the US.

Scientists have found evidence for an ancient sea passage linking currently isolated areas of Antarctica.