date: 2010-03-08 08:58:19

One of our closest primate relatives, the bonobo, prefers to share its food rather than dine alone, scientists report.

date: 2010-03-08 23:47:05

A Tory-backed report urges incentives for schools and tax breaks for researchers to raise the profile of science.

date: 2010-03-09 00:25:22

A plant-eating predator that preys on aggressive superweed Japanese knotweed is to be given a trial release in England.

date: 2010-03-09 00:29:11

Former Labour and Conservative science ministers challenge the next UK government to maintain investment in science.

date: 2010-03-10 00:19:18

The Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned.

date: 2010-03-10 00:22:57

The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say.

date: 2010-03-10 15:19:03

Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta by the photojournalist Ed Kashi documents the consequences of fifty years of oil extraction in the Niger deltaEric HilaireShiona Tregaskis