Scientists counted a whopping 32 separate neck vertebrae bones. Nick Fraser, keeper of natural sciences at National Museums Scotland, told BBC News that the specimen is 'a very strange animal.' ...

Stonehenge is partly Scottish, scientists have revealed, after investigations found the mysterious Altar Stone at the heart of the stone circle originated near Orkney. Archaeologists already knew ...

The blood test has been developed at the University of Edinburgh and could be a game changer for detecting and treating ...

Scientists have said big cats are lurking among us in the UK countryside after DNA belonging to lions and snow leopards was found on a carcass.

The cells cause tissue damage by reprogramming their immediate environment to help promote the emergence of cancer cells. Now ...

A single case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) - commonly known as mad cow disease - has been identified on a farm ...

In a ground-breaking discovery, published in the American Association for Cancer Research journal, Cancer Immunology Research, Scottish scientists have unlocked the mystery of why the immune ...

New research on ancient bear fossils found in a Highland cave suggests that polar bears may have once lived in Scotland.

Science and the Parliament returned to Edinburgh as politicians, education chiefs and industry leaders gathered to discuss ...