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Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are getting set to recreate the Big Bang on a miniature scale.

A meteorite found in Antarctica could lend weight to the argument that life on Earth might have been kick-started from space.

Astronomers have made the most accurate measurement yet of the mass of a mysterious neutrino or "ghost particle".

A technique using neutrons can probe Newton's theory of gravity at the microscopic level, and may give hints of exotic physics, researchers say.

Scientists have detected carbon buckyballs - the largest molecules ever seen in space - in a cloud of cosmic dust surrounding a distant star.

A series of photographs, allegedly from a woman quitting her post over her boss, have been exposed as an elaborate internet hoax.

The owner of a cat which has had its fur dyed pink and was then thrown over a garden fence in Swindon is being sought by the RSPCA.

A video of a golden eagle snatching a child in Canada that has gone viral online is an elaborate hoax, the clipmakers admit.

Rumours that circulated on Twitter that there was evidence that Osama Bin Laden was a fan of The IT Crowd sitcom were an elaborate new media hoax. Here comedian Graham Linehan explains how he organised the ruse.

Find out which celebrities have seen rumours of their death whip up a frenzy on social networks.

Suzanne Goldenberg: An ambitious plan from the Canadians seemed too good to be true - and it was, as the Yes Men strike again

This was the final public message recorded by the late Sir Arthur C Clarke, which closed the global launch of the International Year of Planet Earth, at UNES...

BBC Science writer Martin Redfern investigates plans to build and connect 3,000 radio telescopes across a continent together to help unlock the secrets of the universe.

Face recognition technology can be used to gain access to a person's private data, according to a new study.

Spectacles that merge the real world and cyberspace have been demonstrated by NTT and Olympus.

A new service called NearLondon will offer a replica of the capital's busiest shopping streets with digital shopfronts.

Hundreds attend an inaugural Wikipedia conference in Mumbai as the online encyclopaedia seeks to spread its influence across India. The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan was there.