29 March 2019
Even if there is water on Mars’s surface it may be too cold and salty for life as we know it to survive there – so there is no risk of contaminating Mars with Earth microbes
29 March 2019
The multiplication you learn at school is too slow for computers, so mathematicians are always searching for better methods. Now they have found one
29 March 2019
Robots can regain our trust after a betrayal by lying about it, according to a video game experiment with humans and robots
28 March 2019
Lions in the important Kavango-Zambezi conservation area may be less able to adapt to climate change due to a loss of genetic variation over the past century
27 March 2019
Mars is now a freezing desert, but its surface once had flowing water and it turns out its rivers were wider than those on Earth
27 March 2019
The UK House of Commons is voting to try to agree on a solution to Brexit, but game theory suggests it has chosen a particularly bad way of doing so, says Petros Sekeris
27 March 2019
People are happy to make small tweaks to their lifestyle to combat climate change, but we will need governments to force us to achieve large emissions reductions
26 March 2019
A team led by George Church has used CRISPR to make a record number of DNA changes in one cell, taking us a step closer to thoroughly rewriting our genomes
20 March 2019
A scientific review of 10,000 years of history is finally revealing the unexpected truth behind religion's role in human civilisation
