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 ...

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 ...

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

Fears that artificial intelligence could rise up to wipe out humanity are understandable given our steady diet of sci-fi ...

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

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

AI predicted that a forgotten breast cancer drug could be repurposed to treat many respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, ...

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

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

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 ...

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