Are some science teachers failing their pupils by not confronting creationist arguments when they teach evolution?

Professor David Pyle explains that despite dramatic improvements in our ability to monitor active volcanoes, we're still a long way from predicting their behaviour

This witty film about our throwaway society – made by pupils at a school in Spain – won this year's audience award in the European Commission's Energy Bits challenge

Professor Lori West talks about a radical rethink of transplant compatibility that could reduce waiting lists and save lives

Japan is seeing a shortage of young people studying science, so the Japanese government has prioritised creative approaches to science education

After a fiercely contested competition, the Ugly Animal Preservation Society has a new mascot. Five comedians fought tooth and claw for their favourite ugly critter

The Som Energia cooperative has the goal of providing its members with green energy that doesn't come from oil, coal or gas. A consumer activist investigates

Economist Paul Klemperer of Oxford University describes how he invented an auction to help the Bank of England

For Marcus du Sautoy, the equations that describe how the universe works are every bit as beautiful as a piece of classical music or an impressionist painting

Students from the Middle School of Electrotechnics in Slovenia take on the challenge of beating the national endurance record for a solar-powered model plane

Cooling babies who are deprived of oxygen during birth lowers the risk of death or severe impairment by 50%

Scientists who worked with the Nobel prize-winning pioneer discuss his legacy alongside footage and previously unseen interviews

Schoolchildren, pensioners and office workers are helping scholars at Oxford University to transcribe 2,000-year-old papyri

In austerity Greece, junk is being turned into new, beautiful but functional objects

School pupils in Belgium record their thoughts about energy as part of their sustainability studies

Few discoveries can have brought such far-reaching benefits for humanity as X-rays