A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that life suddenly diversified during the Cambrian explosion ...

Recognising rhythmic patterns was thought to require a big brain, but a series of experiments has shown that buff-tailed ...

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

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

As Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth talk about wanting to make Star Trek real, long-time fan Chanda Prescod-Weinstein says they've misconstrued the heart of the story ...

Four astronauts have begun a 10-day journey around the moon and back again, the first crewed flight to the moon since 1972 ...

If you are unlucky enough to have been bitten by a snake, you are unlikely to want to repeat the experience. Not so for Tim ...

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

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

When light rays from each point on the object can reach the film by taking many different paths, they blur the image. That’s what happens with a large aperture. Conversely, a small aperture leaves ...

Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will be the first time humans have been around the moon in half a century, and its next launch ...