When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

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 ...

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

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

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether ...

The report of possible biosignatures on the exoplanet K2-18b is exciting, but we are a long way from establishing beyond ...

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

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

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

Water filters made from untreated wood can remove more than 99 per cent of particles, taking out many harmful bacteria and microplastics ...

Water falls on Earth every day as rain, and now scientists seem to have found a way of using it to create renewable ...