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The Conservatives say they will make Britain the first country in Europe to have widespread super-fast broadband.

The Conservatives say they will make Britain the first country in Europe to have widespread super-fast broadband.

Can the internet sway the result of the forthcoming general election? BBC election internet correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has been finding out.

Researchers in Edinburgh say they have solved the mystery of why some chickens hatch out half-male and half-female.

Phones transform healthcare in the developing world

Phones transform healthcare in the developing world

Politicians look away as Cyprus dies of drought

The dawning age of the agricultural automatons

The dawning age of the agricultural automatons

The dawning age of the agricultural automatons

Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU backs the plan.

The European brown bear's love of electricity and telegraph poles is helping scientists gain new insights into its behaviour.

New skirmishes in war of Daily Mail v the internet

New skirmishes in war of Daily Mail v the internet

A gaming service that aims to kill off the traditional gaming console will begin streaming games over the net in June this year.

A gaming service that aims to kill off the traditional gaming console will begin streaming games over the net in June this year.

CCTV cameras that can pick out abandoned luggage, suspicious behaviour and lock onto potential suspects are being developed by UK researchers.

Mandated increases in the production of maize-derived ethanol will lead to land-use changes that boost carbon dioxide emissions enough to make the fuel a worse environmental option than burning gasoline, according to an analysis published in the March issue of BioScience. The new analysis refines the conclusion of a controversial estimate that was published by Timothy Searchinger and colleagues in 2008.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) afflicts a large number of younger minority adults receiving medical care in settings that serve the uninsured and under-insured (settings collectively known as the health care safety net). Poor, minority adults with moderate to severe CKD are also two to four times more likely to progress to kidney failure than non-Hispanic whites. These are the findings from a study published online in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Total knee replacement (TKR) successfully relieves pain and improves function in patients with advanced knee arthritis, according to a study presented today at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).