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You often hear it said that ‘privacy is dead’. Our cybersecurity expert explains why that’s not true, yet.
A call to ban sex robots is the same knee-jerk reaction faced by other technological advances, and as wrong-headed.
Social media like Twitter could help improve politics by providing ‘government in public’.
Humans as well as zebra finches go through hurdles to find their perfect partner – and this may better ensure the survival of any offspring.
A giant golden mirror is on the brink of opening up a glimpse of the very first galaxies to be formed.
The modern world’s effect on our ability to remember has got an ugly name. But digital amnesia is not a one-way street. Technology may be helping us to remember more than it has caused us to forget.
The orange juice industry throws away a half of the fruit needed to make juice. Could this be used as an alternative to chemicals derived from crude oil?
The molecular clock is helping us deepen our knowledge of evolution and completing the tree of life. But how does it actually work?
Sanctions against Russia and China would only escalate cyber-attacks, when what’s needed is international agreement.
Sorting and folding clothes is a lot more difficult than when you’re a robot.
Gennady Padalka has returned to Earth from the International Space Station. He has broken the record for time in space and will be the first person on Earth to have eaten salad grown in space.
Apple tries to repeat the same supersize trick with the iPad that made the iPhone 6 wildly popular. But bigger isn’t necessarily better.
Advances in computer power mean archaeologists can now tell a huge amount about what’s underground without picking up a spade.
A narrow focus on bacteria that produces high levels of toxin may have misled researchers in the pursuit to understand superbugs.
Drones are here, carrying cameras, delivering packages and even toting guns. But the laws to govern their use are way behind.
A web obsessed with gathering data about our habits becomes less valuable to us, showing us only more and more of the same.
Why does the zebra have stripes? Researchers are investigating whether it is to confuse predators when they’re on the move.
Prehistoric grandmothers helping out with the kids may have led to a surplus of older men competing for a comparatively small number of young, fertile women. Could this have created long-term couples?
The engineers who brought this science-fiction stable to life relied on some very well established science fact.
Gravitational waves: are they worth the hype?
The heavy hand of the law has no place in helping teenagers learn about sex – but teenagers must realise it can still catch up with them.
That Wikipedia is used for less-than scrupulously neutral purposes shouldn’t surprise us - our lack of critical eye that’s the real problem.
Why are we splitting our children up into arts and sciences at an age when hormones are raging and peer pressure is so powerful? It’s time for an overhaul of post-16 education.
In about 10100 years, the universe will have passed away in a tragic ‘heat death’. But don’t despair, eventually random conscious brains may pop out in empty space to shake things up.