What happens if you stop banning drugs? New Zealand is about to find out – and the rest of the world is watching Less liver ...

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 ...

The arrival of Uber in US cities hasn't reduced the number of traditional taxi drivers, but it has cut their hourly wages by up to 10 per cent, say economists ...

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 ...

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 ...

My hypothesis on why they aren’t eaten is due to the large number of poisonous animals in the ocean. For example, if an orca ...

In a shift that is reshaping entire ecosystems, the open oceans are letting less light in. We don't fully understand the ...