BEER will be short supply, more expensive and may taste different as climate change affects barley production, a scientist says.

Do you smoke? Well, you better be careful where. I don’t smoke, and I don’t like the smell, but what some people are doing to smokers makes me say give me a break.

Steve Gooder tells the tale of a British-born hunter and his mighty foe - and how their duel in the dying days of the Wild West led to the birth of America’s conservation movement

How different the world might look now if President Bush and his advisers had sat around his desk in the Oval Office and settled on the phrase: “Axis of Unbearably Odious” or “Axis of Hatred”. But they rejected those and instead...

The Big Apple has a new logo, and Apple says: Drop dead. At issue is the emblem for New York City’s GreeNYC campaign, which has started to appear around the city on bus shelters, hybrid gasoline-electric taxicabs and even Whole Foods shopping...

Professor Michio Kaku, of City University in New York, has ruled out time travel for at least a few millennia, but believes invisibility cloaks and telepathy could be possible this century.

Scientists have created the first part-human, part-animal embryo.

Evidence has emerged that humans learned the medicinal properties of soil and plants from fellow primates. Roger Highfield reports

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, yesterday became the first world leader to decide not to attend the Olympics in Beijing.

Five famous inventors who may not have made the inventions they are famous for.