Taylor Mitchell Brown is a science journalist covering anthropology and paleontology with occasional forays into other ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Fragments” of West Nile virus have been detected in UK mosquitoes, suggesting that the virus is circulating in the country, ...

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 ...

A huge tsunami hit a cliff in Tonga 7000 years ago and carried a 1200-tonne boulder 200 metres inland, making it the biggest ...

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

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