Meridian Science

50 years ago, the first jumbo jet in the world carried passengers from New York to Heathrow. The Boeing 747 brought mass travel to millions.

The Quadrantid meteor shower is expected to peak on the night of January 3.

The song, which has been written by a school boy from Hampshire, is about the manmade destruction of planet Earth.

'MarinaTex' is made from the proteins in fish scales and skins, waste products of the fishing industry, and can be composted after use.

Tom Clarke Science Editor

It's a bit hit and miss, but the concept opens up a range of interactive possibilities that were, not that long ago, the stuff of Sci-Fi

James Dunham ITV News Meridian reporter

A mother from Sittingbourne is celebrating after a life-extending drug for Cystic Fibrosis was approved on the NHS.

Their work has been showcased by the Royal Horticultural Society, but two gardening pioneers in Brighton are losing their aqua-greenhouse.

Over the last few years almost 50,000 schoolchildren across the country have entered a competition to create something new and wonderful.

The images of man walking on the moon fifty years ago perhaps disguise the fact that much of the world was very, very different then.

The plans for D-Day in June 1944 and the mission afterwards created challenges for scientists and engineers working on southern shores