There is plenty of intriguing sci-fi on offer this month, whether it’s solar-powered cities from Adrian Tchaikovsky or a ...

A cancer-killing virus has stopped pancreatic tumours from growing and spreading in three people in an initial safety trial, ...

Particles of light cannot be divided into smaller particles, but if you try to snip off the end of one, instead of shortening ...

Even if you’ve never bought any cryptocurrency, like columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, your money may be affected by ...

Bacteria created using mirror images of natural biomolecules would pose a grave threat to life on Earth, some researchers ...

Quantum Backrooms is a horror game in which the player explores eerie rooms. The twist is that the rooms have been generated ...

The cost of CAR T-cell therapy means that the highly effective cancer treatment is unavailable in many parts of the world.

After an AI from OpenAI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erdős, mathematicians have borrowed the ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

Airstrikes on Tehran earlier this year emitted a plume containing almost 30,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide that reached Asian ...

With their sleek lines, smoking tyres and thunderous engines, Formula 1 cars have been the fastest road vehicles for the past 50 years. But electric vehicles may soon become the quickest on Earth, as ...

I WAS recently asked for my definition of “hard science fiction” and I burbled something along the lines of “it has to have a lot of science in it, and also spaceships”. I’m not sure the spaceships ...