They get a bad press, but parasites are beautiful under the microscope
FEATURE: 11:30 14 July 2010
First came the supermice that could run all day or stand up to cats. Now here come cows that fight terror and pollution-busting pigs
10:45 13 July 2010
Pictures from a new exhibition show that ancient Egypt didn't have a monopoly on the elaborate preservation of the dead
INTERVIEW: 17:15 07 July 2010
John Amos explains how satellite imagery is helping us find and monitor environmental damage as never before
12:54 07 July 2010
After sending a diving robot down to the great mountain range under the Atlantic Ocean, researchers have found a host of new species
16:30 01 July 2010
From the fastest to the farthest, meet the space missions that have set records for extreme achievement
Our ancestors seem to have had a regular system of 26 symbols, which may have been the origins of written language – find out more in our gallery
13:14 24 June 2010
As a New York art exhibition explores environmental and ecological issues, six artists show and tell what drives them to make their eco-statements
17:55 17 June 2010
Artist Rose-Lynn Fisher has used an electron microscope to photograph "the endless structures and forms that make a little bee"
11:55 10 June 2010
Tropical Fishes of the East Indies by Theodore Pietsche looks at Fallours's lobsters that live on mountains and fish with top hats on their bellies
12:24 09 June 2010
Every year many animals travel thousands of kilometres to feed and mate. We look at some of the most remarkable journeys
16:42 02 June 2010
You know you've made it as a popular archaeologist when you get compared to Indy. New Scientist asks who the hat really fits
Our planet has taken its share of hard knocks over the years – here's our rundown of chart-topping blasts from the past
Thirty species of frog have been wiped out from the El Copé National Park in Panama. We look at the some of the weirdest
This is the first known picture of a Horton Plains slender loris – a mammal so rare it was long thought extinct. Read more
See the process that led to the creation of the first "real" 3D images based on the Mandelbrot set, the most famous fractal equation
See what top secret looks like in our photo-dossier of some of England's most sensitive government sites