Two men have been jailed after becoming the first in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred via a foreign website. The men's bid for asylum was thrown out by a judge.

Imagine having a hybrid or electric car that uses sunlight that hits the windows during the day to charge itself. The windows of your house would look just like any other windows, except they are really solar cells in disguise.

Aircrafts are notorious for adding carbon content into the atmosphere because more and more people are choosing this mode of travel. We are trying to reduce carbon emissions on the ground. But we are not giving enough thought to reducing carbon content...

Al Gore has reached the 1 million Twitter followers mark. How this compares with winning the Nobel peace prize, being the US vice-president, or seeing An Inconvenient Truth win two Oscars, only he knows.

Our new radiocarbon dating of the Condover mammoths changes that, by showing that mammoths returned to Britain and survived until around 14,000 years ago."

When obstetrician Laura Stachel arrived in rural Nigeria to collect data about maternal care, she was shocked to discover that women were dying in childbirth because clinics had no reliable power supply.After taking a course on solar electricity...

Though the aid world has yet to fully embrace new mapping technologies, there are many exciting opportunities for humanitarian organizations to use maps to showcase their work, advocate around areas of need and plan during emergency responses.

A robotic sub called Nereus has reached the deepest-known part of the ocean.The dive to 10,902m (6.8 miles) took place on 31 May, at the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean.

A unique signal detected by NASA's Aqua satellite is helping researchers check the health and productivity of ocean plants around the world. Fluorescent red light emitted by ocean phytoplankton and detected by Aqua reveals how efficiently the microsco

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have succeeded in measuring the size of giant galaxy Messier 87 and were surprised to find that its outer parts have been stripped away by still unknown effects.