Science & Space

Concerns raised over AI trained on 57 million NHS medic...

The makers of an AI model called Foresight say it could help predict disease or ...

England has just given the thumbs up to gene-edited pla...

A UK parliamentary committee has greenlit gene-edited plants. This is great news...

The birds upending our idea of shared parenting

Superb starlings appear to swap between parent and ‘nanny’ roles to help raise c...

Strange microbes give clues to the ancestor of all comp...

The origin of complex eukaryotic cells, of the type found in all plants and anim...

Would snails be better than whales for explaining big d...

Feedback's proposal that the genome of the blue whale could be used to communica...

Science is a Pandora's box – but we should open it anyway

We are often warned of the consequences of knowing too much, but even when scien...

What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re start...

The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it’s unclear how...

These photos reveal the unique agricultural system of t...

Combining sustainability, climate resilience and environmental preservation, the...

What if we could experience life as another species?

In this latest instalment of our speculative column Future Chronicles, an imagin...

An expert's new book unravels the amazing secrets of th...

Kevin Tracey's authoritative look at the vagus nerve and its healing potential i...

Marcus du Sautoy's new book is good on maths, less so o...

The mathematician is out to show the close link between maths and the arts. This...

Don't ban kids from social media; create a site that wo...

Rather than simply keeping children away from social media, we need a specially ...

Can we get better at spotting when someone is lying?

A reader wonders if they can become less gullible. Our science-based advice colu...

Climate drama Families Like Ours deserves to be a word-...

A disturbing new Danish TV series, which follows a wealthy family as rising seas...

Dementia cases are rising faster in China than the rest...

Cases of dementia doubled worldwide between 1990 and 2021, but more than quadrup...

99.999 per cent of the deep seabed remains unexplored b...

Deep-sea submersibles have been diving for decades, but records show that we hav...

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