Most Viewed United Kingdom Science & Technology News

It's occasional guest stars (including, recently, David Beckham and Ricky Gervais) have been a boon to the show's popularity, with such distinguished political figures as Kofi Annan and famous musicians like Tony Bennett and Little Richard all dropping in to...

Lord Lawson, the former chancellor, has called for an independent inquiry into claims that leading climate change scientists manipulated data to strengthen the case for man-made global warming. Thousands of emails and documents stolen from the University of East Anglia...

Our absolute aim is to get this into stores and online before Christmas." Although a launch date has not been confirmed, Tesco Mobile's iPhones will be offered on contract and pay-as-you-go deals. The spokeswoman hinted at a robust pricing policy,...

Newspaper publishers will be able to set limits on the number of free news articles people can read through Google. The concession follows claims that Google is profiting from online news pages. Under the First Click Free programme, publishers can...

In one case, they even discussed blacklisting and boycotting one climate journal if it ever dared to publish a peer reviewed paper from a skeptical scientist again...Cheers Phil” And this: “This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for...

Female sharks can reproduce without having sex,according to a scientific research. A female hammerhead shark has given birth without mating with a male and its baby has no fatherly DNA. Sharks can reproduce asexually by an unusual method known as...

Terrorism is a subject that is worrying the World – and fear can set them apart from others. Scientists of the City University of London are making use of this inherent characteristic to ferret out probable terrorists. They are isolating...

In recent months, Murdoch his lieutenants have stepped up their war of words with Google, accusing it of "kleptomania" and acting as a "parasite" for including in its Google News pages ...The 78-year-old mogul's assertion, however, is not actually correct:...

The latest deaths – two adults who were treated by NHS Greater Glasgow and an older person in NHS Lothian – took the toll since the outbreak began to 51...The recent rise in H1N1 deaths is a harsh reminder that...