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When dealing with young teenagers, information is better than bribes or threats.
The Campaign Against Killer Robots has launched a terrifying film showing why lethal drones need to be banned.
The government may be backing tech innovation, but it doesn’t mean Govcoin gets a free pass into the heart of civic life.
New experimental results on methane may help us to uncover whether Uranus really is the coldest planet.
Easy experiments that show the Earth is round.
Online usability demands keep trumping security measures that are designed to keep our data safe online.
Deep beneath the Alpine ski slopes, patient scientists are waiting to observe a rare radioactive decay that would make us rewrite the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
There’s plenty of evidence that even fish have feelings.
New research suggests Dolly’s cloning process didn’t create health problems.
Seagrass medows support rich biodiversity. New research shows what you can do to protect them.
Scientists have finally been able to prove that thunder and lightning drive nuclear reactions.
This is what it’s like going to the cinema when you can’t see the screen.
See if you can get your head around this.
It’s going to be difficult for UK government-backed autonomous vehicle projects to compete with Silicon Valley – unless they have something neat under the bonnet.
Having discovered an asteroid from outside the solar system for the first time, scientists are hoping there are more out there – illuminating the path to extrasolar worlds.
Robots could free human carers to focus on the more personal parts of the job.
Conventional approaches to assessing the impact of cameras on collisions may be overoptimistic.
New studies investigate whether music, chess, video games or puzzles can make us smarter.
An archaeological dig at Cat’s Brain has unearthed a remarkable insight into life in Britain before Stonehenge.
A guide to meteor showers – what to look out for and when.
New research shows your ability to play certain computer games is linked to your intelligence.
New research claims to have found a link between types of chords and the lyrics they are typically paired with.
Scientists are hoping to one day be able to turn the natural dietary compound resveratrol into medicines to slow down ageing.
Time to chuck out the phrase books?