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 ...

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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 ...

Nelson Dellis credits techniques like the method of loci for his extraordinary memory. Now, brain scans have revealed the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...