Scientist's advice is to baste meat in beer before grilling this summer in order to reduce risk of harmful chemicals forming during cooking

Achievement akin to �climbing Mount Everest’ in its complexity

Smoking impairs the ability to taste bitter flavours more than any others

New Caledonian crows were tested with tasks based on Aesop's Fables

The procedure replaces the patient's blood with a saline solution that lowers the body temperature and slows cellular activity

GlaxoSmithKline and non-profit institutes hope to fast-track research into cures using patient DNA

Scientists to monitor identical twins while one is in orbit and the other remains on the ground

Astronomers have discovered a new small planet at the edge of the Solar System and in the process have received tantalising support for the idea that there may be a much larger planet still waiting to be discovered even further away.

Study finds some motives for faking orgasms are less altruistic than others

We're not saying it's going to happen, we're just saying it's nice to be prepared

�Sticks and stones may break my bones, but goo will stop them shattering'

The trust set up to manage Hadrian’s Wall is to close in six months after funding dried up, leaving support for the World Heritage Site “uncertain�.

The image above shows the strike, click for a larger size

While planes and ships have scoured the oceans and speculation has ebbed and flowed about the fate of Flight MH370, scientists at a British satellite company have spent the past fortnight crunching vast amounts of data to provide the first solid information relating to the fate of the Boeing 777 and the 239 people onboard.

No single weather event can prove or disprove climate change, but in its review of 2013 the world’s leading meteorological authority suggests that many of last year’s weather extremes are likely to have been heavily influenced by rising global temperatures.

Professor Sir Rory Collins said the public are being made unjustifiably suspicious of the drug

Scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center found a correlation between a preference for sweet tastes and height in children

Scientists in Sweden have discovered what they are calling “an entirely new mechanism� for fighting cancer - by “exploding� cancer cells.