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That genetic editing techniques have become as straightforward as they have poses questions for how we want them to be used.
Ten years after Chip and PIN cards arrived in Britain, contactless cards are circumventing their security – why?
It takes two people to launch a nuclear missile - it’s time the same level of safety returned to the cockpit.
Personalities are affected by our environments, but they are not set in stone. By promoting well-being, we have the ability to change them for the better.
The evidence is growing over the psychological effects of our screen time - when will the tipping point come?
The aims of safety and security are not always on the same team, sometimes with disastrous results.
Regulating bitcoin and digital currencies is hard, but tackling currency exchanges may be the answer.
The discovery of a thickly viscous layer which traps sinking plates below Earth’s surface has wide implications, not least as a cause of earthquakes.
Artistic works in the public domain may be free, but they form the basis of derivative works worth millions to the economy.
How a long dead mathematician called Maxwell can speed up your internet.
The crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525 in the Alps with the loss of 150 lives will have left grieving families wanting answers, but all we can do is wait.
Ever since BT was privatised there have been calls to break it up. But with the steps Ofcom has already taken, it’s not clear there’s any benefit for consumers.
Tell those living in the countryside about the government’s promised “right to fast internet” and they’ll show you 10 years of similar, unmet promises.
Metoposaurus algarvensis, aka toilet jaws, was all over our early ancestors. The thing that got us off the hook? A big hot interception 200m years ago.
5G network design will have to find more inventive and less expensive ways of speeding up wireless networks.
The days of the username and password combo may be numbered as biometric security grows more sophisticated.
A solar eclipse is something to behold, but they’re rare and useful events for testing scientific theories too.
Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart wrote a series of four books on the science of Discworld.
Subatomic particles have shaped and continue to shape our universe but despite perfect predictions by physicists, the theory about unseen particles is still wrong.
Solar eclipses may not be a once in a lifetime event, but being able to see them from home is rare enough.
Brown or yellow, the dottyback fish has a colour for every occasion, and every habitat.
Internet Explorer, the browser that everyone loves to hate, isn’t done yet.
Researchers have created the finest-scale genetic map of any country in the world.
One to three planets in habitable zones around stars in our galaxy could sustain life.