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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows ...

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