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Trio of stars shows Einstein is still right about relativity

4 July 2018

A fundamental rule of general relativity has passed its most extreme test yet, courtesy of the movements of three distant stars

Boys and football coach in Thai cave are medically stable

4 July 2018

Twelve boys and their football coach were found in a partially flooded cave in northern Thailand on Monday after being missing for nine days

NHS England considers plans to cut some surgeries

4 July 2018

Breast reductions and tonsil removals are among 17 procedures that may be restricted in England in a bid to save the National Health Service £200 million a year

Heatwaves show global warming is not just a future threat

4 July 2018

Better climate models and fast computers are helping us see how our carbon emissions are already causing severe weather events

It's ok that the public rejected GM food – after all, we did ask

4 July 2018

Many people see the public's rejection of genetically-modified food as a failure, but I would argue it was successful public engagement, says Lesley Paterson

The second great battle for the future of our food is underway

4 July 2018

First it was GM food. Now battle lines are being drawn over whether crops and animals modified with CRISPR gene-editing can make it on to supermarket shelves

Facebook apologises after bug unblocks people who were blocked

4 July 2018

Blocking is often used to help Facebook users avoid abuse or harassment, but a bug meant 800,000 people lost this safeguard for a week

Smoke from moorland wildfires may hold toxic blast from the past

4 July 2018

The UK’s largest wildfire for decades is almost under control, but peat burning below the ground risks spewing historical pollution back into the sky

First commercial DNA data storage service set to launch in 2019

4 July 2018

A start-up called Catalog claims it will be able to store a terabyte of data in a gram-sized DNA pellet, but questions remain over whether the technology is ready