The boom in solar energy around the world has led to huge numbers of panels being installed on prime agricultural land, taking quadrillions of calories out of the global food supply. More than 5000 ...

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

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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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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

A female sperm whale has been filmed giving birth for the first time, supported by 10 adult females who lifted the calf out ...

A new version of the periodic table of elements has predicted hundreds of highly charged ions that could be used to create the next generation of optical atomic clocks. The periodic table, first ...