Whenever there’s even a slight chance that an exoplanet shows signs of biological activity, people understandably get excited ...

A quantum sensor using Earth's magnetic fields outperformed standard GPS backups in test flights. This technology could help ...

The "skyglow" produced when light from cities bounces off clouds can help cyanobacteria and other aquatic microbes grow at ...

Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting ...

A network of Earth's best clocks will be synchronised with the most accurate one ever sent into space. But the device has a ...

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On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

As quantum computers mature, they will be transformational. But there are good reasons why we don’t yet know exactly which ...

Two independent research teams have developed methods for hacking noisy quantum computers based on a row-hammer attack, a ...

General relativity is an astonishingly beautiful theory, and grappling with why it disagrees with quantum mechanics is a joy, ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite city – or so we thought ...

The idea that the rise of tech means today's young people are less intelligent than previous generations is rife – but wrong, ...