New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

NASA has launched a $488m infra-red mission to map the distribution of galaxies and study cosmic inflation. The ...

These results suggest that similar reactions between helium and iron may have occurred within Earth’s core shortly after its formation, trapping much of the primordial helium-3 in the material that ...

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Could the tools we build to reflect our intelligence start distorting our very sense of self? Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technological advancement with huge ethical implications, and in The AI ...

Quantum technologies are flourishing the world over, with advances across the board researching practical applications such as quantum computing, communication, cryptography and sensors. Indeed, the ...

The administration of US president Donald Trump continues to introduce polices that strip the government’s support of US science, as Peter Gwynne reports Two months into Donald Trump’s second ...

Researchers claim scientific integrity is threatened when post-publication changes are made without a public notice ...

The APS has combined its March Meeting and April Meeting into the Global Physics Summit, the largest physics conference in the world ...

To this end, many countries around the world are imposing legal requirements on photovoltaic manufacturers, to ensure that they collect and recycle any solar cell waste they produce. These initiatives ...

We are first taken back to the dawn of the 20th century and shown how the evolution of architectural acoustics as a ...

Firefly Aerospace claim to be the first commercial company to achieve a ‘fully successful soft-landing on the Moon’.