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Cash cuts see green grants halved (May 10)
The number of grants to people fitting green energy systems in their homes has halved, the BBC has learned.


Great tits cope well with warming (May 8)
Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report, unlike some other birds.


'No bias' against UK astronauts (May 8)
UK government opposition to human spaceflight will be no bar to its citizens becoming astronauts, Esa says.


New batch of walruses gets tagged (May 9)
Ten of Greenland's walruses are fitted with sat-tags to confirm whether the blubbery beasts migrate to Canada.


Platypus genetic code unravelled (May 7)
The genetic blueprint of one of the world's strangest mammals - the duck-billed platypus - is deciphered.


EU's sat-nav pioneer calls home (May 7)
A demonstrator satellite for the European Galileo system begins transmitting navigation signals back to Earth.


Nasa set to join petaflop elite (May 8)
Nasa has unveiled a plan to boost its supercomputer power to help plan and model future missions.


Food waste on 'staggering' scale (May 8)
People are needlessly throwing away 3.6m tonnes of food each year in England and Wales, research suggests.


Type of body fat 'boosts health' (May 7)
Body fat found under the skin may help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, research suggests.


Stem cells may lessen transplants (May 6)
Scientists examine how liver and bone disease could be treated using embryonic stem cells.