Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

Matt Arnold says he was asked to leave the store after being wrongly flagged as a shoplifter.

The new breed of camera-equipped streetlights has the potential to fight crime and track down missing persons. Or will it just take Britain one step closer to a surveillance state?

Creatures that survive extreme conditions like mind-boggling temperatures and toxicity challenge how we define life. Bárbara Pinho finds out how it will impact how we search for life beyond Earth?

This Pride, we’re answering all your digital rights questions in season two of our initiative, LGBT Q...

Child safety groups say that banning UK teens is a step back rather than a move closer to victory

One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away

Britain is conducting ​a full review of its National Health Service contract with U.S. data analytics ‌firm Palantir , amid growing political pressure for the government to use a break clause at the end of the initial term in early 2027.

Barry Sharpless and his team first introduced the concept of 'clicking' molecules together 25 years ago

Known as a "maverick", Venter is probably best known for his role in the Human Genome Project, where his company, Celera Genomics, competed directly with the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium.

Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson chats with Ars about his new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You.

Most teens in the United States say that Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat aren't harming their mental health, according to a new report from Pew Research.

Britain is preparing to cancel its contribution to one of the Large Hadron Collider's next major upgrades.

The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

FDA refuses to review Moderna’s influenza vaccine, which could raise concerns about the agency’s posture toward vaccines and drug approvals more generally.

It's the latest blow to encryption in the UK

Government seeks “nudity-detection algorithms” in iOS and Android, report says.

The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind's game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins.

House of Lords committee urges government to stem exodus of science and technology companies

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

The mRNA vaccines are credited with slowing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

Nature - Results from early-stage trial show that 80% of participants who received one of two HIV vaccine candidates produced antibodies against viral proteins.

Immigration policies are making it much more difficult to get scientific talent to come to the UK at a time of global flux

Police and spy agencies are keen to combat criminality and terrorism with artificial intelligence. But critics say the CIA-funded Palantir surveillance software enables "predictive policing."

Rubins' last day was on Monday (July 28).

The country has serious problems but the right’s vision of it has become hysterical

Anti-vaccine campaigns have targeted thimerosal for decades despite no evidence of ingredient causing harm

Four decades after his lab found odd, massive particles inside cells, Leonard Rome is still determined to figure out what “vaults” do

Digital encyclopaedia may impose quota on number of users to comply with Online Safety Act

Proteins are constantly moving, but our structures of them are static. Clare Sansom talks to the researchers using free-electron lasers to make time-resolved structures

The British government may be forced to drop its plans to force Apple to build a backdoor to access encrypted user data, the Financial Times reports....

Some regions face a future with fewer chemists

Every year, horseshoe crabs are harvested for their blue blood, but alternatives are now coming through that could help protect these ancient animals

Long-awaited results suggest that mitochondrial donation can prevent babies from inheriting diseases caused by mutant mitochondria.

The European Commission must be “much stronger” in confronting the Hungarian leader, say Spanish officials.

Losing the Y chromosome seems to make cancer cells more aggressive in men and the phenomenon might even spread between cells.

This pilot program will soon be expanded across the country.

The cyberattack in Czechia comes amid growing speculation of a diplomatic reset between the EU and China prompted by Donald Trump's policies. #EuropeNews