Fears that artificial intelligence could rise up to wipe out humanity are understandable given our steady diet of sci-fi ...

An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first ...

AI predicted that a forgotten breast cancer drug could be repurposed to treat many respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

For those who want a little help composting, take a cue from James Woodford’s experience raising worms – both the small ...

Quantum computers could crack a common data encryption technique once they have a million qubits, or quantum bits. While this is still well beyond the capabilities of existing quantum computers, this ...

April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our ...

Improved hardware can send ten times as much data through existing fibre-optic cables, potentially providing a way to ...

There is evidence that intermittent fasting alters the gut microbiome, and while this is often believed to improve gut health, some studies are now raising doubts about whether that is always the case ...

Two of the biggest health concerns of the modern age – ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and microplastics – have one thing in common: we don’t actually know if or how they harm our health. But researchers ...

A galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, known as Hebe, that existed just 400 million years after the big bang ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...