April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our ...

The third right arm of male octopuses has a specialised role in mating, and the creatures take extra care to avoid damaging ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

In a shift that is reshaping entire ecosystems, the open oceans are letting less light in. We don't fully understand the ...

A study based on tree rings claimed that droughts played a role in events that led to the Roman withdrawal from Britain, but ...

A virus seems to have jumped from marine animals into people for the first time ever, and it is causing serious vision ...

A collection of stories set in George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe and a novel from The Expanse author James S. A.

NASA’s Artemis II mission will be the first time humans have been around the moon in half a century, and its next launch ...

Improved hardware can send ten times as much data through existing fibre optic cables, potentially providing a way to ...

The immune system going rogue and attacking healthy tissue seems to behind some cases of long covid, a discovery that could ...

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

A female sperm whale has been filmed giving birth for the first time, supported by 10 adult females who lifted the calf out ...