The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.

Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.

To escape the Earth's gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.

Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.