US President Trump has proposed a Golden Dome defence system that includes missile interceptors in space. But the idea would ...

Wildlife carers fostering some of Australia’s most precious animals have had to rescue them one by one from rising waters and ...

A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines ...

Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's ...

Many people are worried about the health effects of ultra-processed foods and microplastics, but could these two issues ...

The slowdown of a major current in the Atlantic Ocean is boosting the sea level and associated flooding in the Northeast US, on top of the already-rising sea level due to climate change.

By exerting unprecedented control over extremely cold atoms, researchers have put them in a state with several simultaneously ...

Nanoparticle-infused contact lenses can transform infrared radiation into different colours of visible light, potentially ...

Women seem to be judged as being more moral than men, which could mean they have further to fall if they don't meet societal ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

Puzzlingly, many birds add human-made material to their nests with no obvious function – now there is evidence that these ...

Dense breast tissue can make tumours hard to spot on mammogram scans, but adding another step to this screening programme ...