US President Trump has proposed a Golden Dome defence system that includes missile interceptors in space. But the idea would ...

A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines ...

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Wildlife carers fostering some of Australia’s most precious animals have had to rescue them one by one from rising waters and ...

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

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 ...

Nanoparticle-infused contact lenses can transform infrared radiation into different colours of visible light, potentially ...

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

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

Dense breast tissue can make tumours hard to spot on mammogram scans, but adding another step to this screening programme ...

Huge colonies of penguins in Antarctica fill the air with ammonia, which stabilises particles in the atmosphere that allow ...

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