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

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

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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 ...

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

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 ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

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

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

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

With the US in retreat from climate negotiations, China's Xi Jinping could become the next green global leader ...

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