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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigantic sizes in response to ...

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

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

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...