Science

A seven-million-year-old fossil continues to complicate the story of when, and how, humans first walked on two legs

The CEO of Nvidia has announced a breakthrough in AI systems for self-driving vehicles. Is this a cause for excitement or should we regard it as a warning?

An unusually early flu season was mistaken for an unusually severe one – raising questions about how risk is communicated and how unprepared the NHS remains

Lab-grown gametes could transform fertility treatment – but biology is proving far harder to hack than technology

It predicts the universe with eerie precision, yet not even Nobel laureates can agree on how to interpret it

In the coming 12 months, one thing is for certain – the American war on science will only get worse

A Scottish geologist made a discovery that altered the way we see ourselves, and our planet. And yet his name is widely forgotten

Maybe we have decided to restore it to being a mere useful tool for data analysis, and not to let it run and ruin our lives

Genetic screening of prospective pets to deduce behavioural traits can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality

It’s time to protect British science from political interference. Just look at who’s leading in the opinion polls

There is no reason to suppose that we learn anything significant from the genetic data about what made the dictator the man he was

As was often the case before our villains became cartoonish, Watson’s flaws were complex

Generative biology will be inspired more by embryology than by genetic engineering

Nothing is more transparent than Silicon Valley’s fixation with longevity and, ideally, immortality, revealing a desperate fear of death

Trump’s abandonment of vaccine research weakens our defences for the next pandemic. Now Britain must step up

The industry has fostered a cult of personality that seems to leave the tech press starstruck and unquestioning of nonsensical claims

A meeting to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s famous paper drew a fairly unanimous judgment from the expert speakers

The discovery of traces of a blue pigment on a stone shaped into a shallow dish at a Palaeolithic site in Germany is quite a find

Trump and Kennedy want a simple answer to this very complex problem. And it must be an answer that fits their scepticism of much mainstream medicine

Egged on by Trump and RFK Jr, a deadly blend of conspiracy theory and wellness woo-woo is going mainstream

Could Donald Trump ever say anything so mad that Farage would disagree with it? On this evidence, no - probably not

Nasa’s Perseverance rover has found organic carbon in Martian rocks – but scientists have warned against jumping to conclusions after previous false alarms

New experiments have failed to prove that cold fusion will lead to a practical energy source

This film by Chinese physicists lasts just 60 thousandths of a second, and can only be followed by eye when slowed down by a factor of 30 or so

The UK adopted intrusive US-style sirens in the 1990s. They’re scientifically worse for our ears and our sleep than the ones used in Europe. Do they have to be so shrill?

Some of the best science fiction is not so much about dreaming up futuristic technologies but imagining the kinds of societies they will engender

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

A new exhibition charts humanity’s long, losing battle – there’s either too much or too little, and it’s always in the wrong place

Nuclear power may be essential for a future lunar base, but Nasa’s latest announcement looks more like a flag-planting contest than a serious mission plan

Anti-vaccine lies mean the disease is now spreading in Britain, the US and around the world. And this is just the start

Ideologues don’t like science because it confronts them with truths they can’t dismiss. Donald Trump seems to think he has a workaround

How a Tanzanian secondary school student's ice cream making prompted a probe into why hot water can sometimes freeze faster than cold water