Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has rejected claims by Elon Musk that the online encyclopedia has a left-wing bias, describing ...

Robot sporting events could become more common in the coming years. But how many of us will be tuning in to watch?

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The space rock has actually been hanging around Earth for 60 years, but no-one has noticed it before... until now.

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Scientists have found evidence of multiple infectious diseases that may have played key roles in the army’s catastrophic ...

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AI is being trained to spot future killers – and it’s already making eerily accurate predictions. But can we trust it to get ...

Formula 1 are introducing 'sustainable' synthetic fuels to their races in 2026, but experts are divided on the impact this ...

Here comes the sun, doo doo doo doo… plants have developed a number of ways to survive when they can't photosynthesise. All plants can survive for short periods without light. Obviously, they need to ...

Tiny suspended particles in the atmosphere – and the gas molecules themselves – cause the light from the Sun to be split into its constituent wavelengths (this is called Rayleigh scattering). The ...