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It happened before, it could happen again: Ofcom’s 200% price hike could stifle UK telecoms investment and pass costs on to customers.
Scientists have shown how tiny organic tissue remnants in fossils correspond to the pigments in the animals’ original skin and hair.
When Facebook goes down it’s an irritation. But as the world moves its data and processing to the cloud, the potential for major loss grows ever greater.
Water on Mars could mean life on Mars. But how do we explore it without destroying it?
Pain and empathy have been linked in a new study, raising the question of whether painkillers and brain damage could actually reduce empathy.
Bodies thought to belong to members of Russia’s murdered royal family are to be re-examined for new evidence but forensics has its potential and limitations.
Instead of arguing over whether adblocking is right or wrong, advertisers and publishers could work to make the web better.
The Martian may not be completely scientifically accurate but that is certainly not a problem.
New research suggests that salty water exists on Mars in the summer months. But that wouldn’t be the first time we hear of water on the red planet. So what’s new and what isn’t?
Internet connectivity via your lightbulb? It’s already possible with LED lights that can enlighten as well as lighten.
The UK government looks set to allow EDF to build a new kind of nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point. But are there better nuclear technologies we could use?
Computer models can help planners deal with large groups of people but we need better insight into the psychology of crowds to make them accurate.
Is a novella published 130 years ago our best bet for explaining the worlds of 4D and beyond?
The smell of death is easily recognised but not fully understood. Identifying the compounds behind it could lead to a number of improvements in forensics, including better trained cadaver dogs.
Arming police drones could lead to less human error and fewer deaths, but it opens up other possibilities that need careful attention.
Cyber criminals have found a way to harvest data from iPhones and iPads using the weak point in Apple’s otherwise top security system - app developers.
The origin of life is still an unsolved riddle. How were life’s building blocks first assembled?
One of the engineers behind Bloodhound, the UK’s anticipated world land speed record attempt, explains how they created a car to reach 1000mph.
Remains from a 9000-year-old victim in Brazil suggests he was beheaded, de-fleshed and had his hands amputated.
Research into invisibility cloaks has been flourishing over the past decade yet they have still not reached the market. But that may be about to change.
The new iPad Pro reminds us that firms like Apple are favouring incremental change rather than tackling technology’s big challenges.
Being big – larger than a dog – increases the risk of being wiped out in a mass extinction.
An exciting new exhibition at the Science Museum in London celebrates Soviet space success.
Our journalism expert explains how to tell fact from fiction.