It will be some months before the true toll of Europe's worst-ever heatwave is confirmed, but researchers can estimate a ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

From friendship in a world of chatbots to what it means to be alive, this month’s new popular science books are asking some ...

The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Unlikely, says one reader – a fly's path is often dictated by whirling air currents, and don't expect them to follow the same path out of your house that they took into it ...

The longevity space isn’t just for humans. Science is uncovering new ways to keep our pets healthier for longer too.

A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles would cause commercial flights to pass through clouds of sulphuric acid, posing a danger to passenger ...

A reader (and astronomy expert) gets to grips with this one, pointing out that Earth’s future fate is still uncertain – and that elements found in nuclear waste aren't great building blocks for biolog ...

Are there any plants and creatures that could be taken to the moon and would survive, reproduce and be a viable food source in, say, 25 years’ time? Robin Maguire Hobart, Tasman ...

Readers continue to grapple with this topic – including one correspondent who is highly unimpressed with a previous suggestion ...