Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have found a gene that helps barley cope with climate change.
Research for the Scottish Sentencing Council finds a majority of Scots think sentences are too soft.
Every week 11 terminally-ill people in Scotland suffer in pain as they die, campaigners say.
After 33 years, Japanese fishermen are once again carrying out commercial whaling.
The B-26 bomber crewman died when his plane crashed and exploded two days before D-Day.
Jim Deans draws on his own homeless experiences in running a very busy Brighton street kitchen.
Arched designs can be thinner, lighter and made out of non-traditional materials.
"I've never seen this many different plastics in one place," chemistry professor Tony Ryan says.
Intimate, off-guard images of acclaimed actors as they gear up to go on stage.
