New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content ...

Sci-fi author Ken MacLeod shares stories about his friend, the late Iain M. Banks, author of the genre-redefining Culture ...

It's easy to assume that the most talented adults among us were once gifted children, but it turns out that talent during childhood is no guide to later success ...

Our cells follow 24-hour circadian rhythms that regulate our blood sugar levels and are heavily influenced by light exposure.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has played a leading role in providing data, modelling and supercomputing to ...

Excavations of sewer drains at a Roman fort in northern England have revealed the presence of several parasites that can ...

Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosmologists have been ...

A pair of nascent planets have been caught smashing together around the nearby star Fomalhaut, and in doing so have solved the puzzle of its famous ‘planet’ ...

Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other ...

The rings of Saturn are normally thought to be flat, but measurements by the Cassini spacecraft show that some of their ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed ...

White-sided dolphins seem to help killer whales "scout" and catch Chinook salmon near Vancouver Island, then eat the ...