The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth’s.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria is rising; is a great global crisis on the horizon?

I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the

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This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy.

Letters: Prof Lyla Mehta says the glacial floods and loss of life are a stark reminder that climate disruption is global and highly unequal. Plus letters from Lynda McDonald and Jan Bengtsson

Largely silent for the last year, the beleaguered former NIAID chief defends himself in friendly forum

The deluge capped a summer of extreme climate events, from deadly heatwaves to wildfires. We must take action now

DRASTIC and Chan & Ridley fabricated a narrative about eight virus sequences from the Mojiang mine. With the benefit of hindsight, lets reevaluate their claims.  Latinne et al.'s study In late May 202...

The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.

Quentin Cooper hears about the DNA reading machine, the ribosome.