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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...