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'Never Seen Jupiter Like This': James Webb Telescope Shows Incredible View of Planet
The infrared images, taken in July, capture unprecedented views of the biggest planet's storms, moon and surrounding rings
A Moment That Changed Me: a Maths Puzzle Taught Me to Use My Brain - and Helped Me Cope with Losing My Daughter
A Moment That Changed Me: a Maths Puzzle Taught Me to Use My Brain - and Helped Me Cope with Losing My Daughter
As a schoolboy, I put little effort into my homework. But a long night wrestling with Euclidean geometry led to a career in nuclear physics - and a more resilient personality
Thanks to Brexit, I Lost a €2.5m Research Grant. I Fear for the Future of UK Science
Thanks to Brexit, I Lost a €2.5m Research Grant. I Fear for the Future of UK Science
Britain has jeopardised research and made itself far less attractive to overseas scientists.
Zoom In: National Science Week Prize Puts Photography Under the Microscope - in Pictures
Zoom In: National Science Week Prize Puts Photography Under the Microscope - in Pictures
Lab-grown spinal cords and glowing fish larvae are among the images in an annual competition to find the best pictures taken under the microscope,
Despite Climate, War and Covid, is Everything Actually … Getting Better?
The psychologist Steven Pinker has long believed we should be more optimistic - and even current crises do not dissuade him.
China Overtakes the US in Scientific Research Output
Between 2018 and 2020 China published 23.4% of the world's scientific papers, eclipsing the US.
The Big Idea: Are We Living in a Simulation?
Could the universe be an elaborate game constructed by bored aliens?
Newly Identified Langya Virus Tracked After China Reports Dozens of Cases
Virus, which causes symptoms including fever, fatigue, cough, loss of appetite and muscle aches, is believed to have spread from animals to humans.
'Science Superpower' Plan Risks Making UK Bureaucracy Superpower, Says Peer
A report says that the government's approach 'feels like setting off on a marathon with your shoelaces tied together'.
James Lovelock, Creator of Gaia Hypothesis, Dies on 103rd Birthday
The scientist was best known for his theory that the Earth is a self-regulating community of organisms
Scientists Find 30 Potential New Species at Bottom of Ocean
Natural History Museum scientists seek to unlock mysteries of deep sea but some fear activity will disturb diversity of the depths
Revealed: Hundreds of Billions of Stars. Now Let's Search Them for Life
For astrobiologists, the first image from Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope reveals infinite possibilities of life beyond Earth, says this author.
EU Scraps 115 Grants for UK Scientists and Academics Amid Brexit Row
Move follows dispute over Northern Ireland protocol, as one academic says UK is going down a 'dark path'
Cern Gears Up for More Discoveries 10 Years After 'God Particle' Find
With the Higgs boson already in the bag, the Large Hadron Collider begins another period of data collection
Do We Need a New Theory of Evolution?
A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists - and the conflict may determine the future of biology
Truthful Climate Reporting Shifts Viewpoints, but Only Briefly, Study Finds
Truthful Climate Reporting Shifts Viewpoints, but Only Briefly, Study Finds
Researchers gauged responses to climate science versus scepticism and suggest facts bear repeating
Female Scientists Less Likely to Be Given Authorship Credits, Analysis Finds
Female Scientists Less Likely to Be Given Authorship Credits, Analysis Finds
Disparities extend to lower chance of being named on patents and to areas such as healthcare where women dominate
Life Will Find a Way: Could Scientists Make Jurassic Park a Reality?
Just a few years from now, herds of woolly 'mammoths' could be roaming the Siberian tundra. Are dodos and dinosaurs next for de-extinction?
Where Science Meets Fiction: the Dark History of Eugenics
A newly published book looks at how the study of genetics has been warped for political ends.
Gaia Probe Reveals Stellar DNA and Unexpected 'starquakes'
The robotic spacecraft unravels the history of the our galaxy's evolution - and could identify habitable regions of the Milky Way
Google Engineer Put on Leave After Saying AI Chatbot Has Become Sentient
The engineer says the system has the perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to, a human child.
The Reef Fish People Find Ugly More Likely to Be Endangered, Study Finds
Discrepancy between aesthetic value and extinction vulnerability could have repercussions
She Experimented on Primates for Decades. Now She Wants to Shut Down the Labs
Lisa Jones-Engel quit her work as a lab researcher when she began to see how 'like us' monkeys are
Pfizer to Offer All Its Drugs Not-for-profit to 45 Lower-income Countries
Pfizer to Offer All Its Drugs Not-for-profit to 45 Lower-income Countries
Firm launches 'healthier world' accord in Davos and speaks to other drugmakers about similar steps
Who Owns Einstein? The Battle for the World's Most Famous Face
The long read: Thanks to a savvy California lawyer, Albert Einstein has earned far more posthumously than he ever did in his lifetime. But is that what the great scientist would have wanted?
Half of Covid-Hospitalised Still Symptomatic Two Years On, Study Finds
Research on Wuhan patients reveals effects of long Covid, with 11% still not having returned to work.
Revealed: the 'carbon Bombs' Set to Trigger Catastrophic Climate Breakdown
Exclusive: Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns
