An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first ...

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

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

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

Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

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

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

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