US President Trump has proposed a Golden Dome defence system that includes missile interceptors in space. But the idea would ...

Wildlife carers fostering some of Australia’s most precious animals have had to rescue them one by one from rising waters and ...

A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines ...

Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's ...

Many people are worried about the health effects of ultra-processed foods and microplastics, but could these two issues ...

Puzzlingly, many birds add human-made material to their nests with no obvious function – now there is evidence that these ...

Women seem to be judged as being more moral than men, which could mean they have further to fall if they don't meet societal ...

A huge tsunami hit a cliff in Tonga 7000 years ago and carried a 1200-tonne boulder 200 metres inland, making it the biggest ...

Nanoparticle-infused contact lenses can transform infrared radiation into different colours of visible light, potentially ...

The weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is boosting the sea level along the New England coast ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

Airborne electric fields similar to those from nearby power lines seem to have a dramatic effect on honeybee foraging, ...