The world now has a rocket thruster that uses air instead of fuel - and it could change how satellites fly in the lowest orbits around Earth.

Statistics don't lie.

The American public is fascinated by scientists, but that doesn't mean they always trust them. A new survey from the 3M State of Science Index reveals the complex attitudes that many people have towards scientists and science itself.

Nanowood is a strong yet lightweight material made by chemically stripping wood to its skeletal fibres. It’s eco-friendly and insulates better than styrofoam

Time is a strange thing. As Einstein said, it is a relative concept. He wasn't predicting a bizarre paradox to beset Future Europe in the year 2018, but he may as well have been.

Last July, a Whole Foods store in New York's Harlem decided to stock bags of fonio, a West African grain similar to couscous. The first shipment sold out in three hours.

A team of quantum physicists has busted the limit on how fast information can move through the universe.

The physicist and author of A Brief History of Time has died at his home in Cambridge. His children said: ‘We will miss him for ever’ Stephen Hawking, the brightest star in the firmament of science, whose insights shaped modern cosmology and inspired global…

When the famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was first diagnosed with ALS at the ripe age of 21, he was given only a few years to live.

Physicist Stephen Hawking has passed away at his home in Cambridge aged 76, leaving the science world reeling. Hawking was diagnosed with a rare form of early-onset motor neurone disease at the age of 21, but his incomparable genius, sense of humour, and…

When the potential of intelligent alien civilisations comes up in conversation, it's usually about the search. How will we find them? Where are they? Are they there at all? What actions should we take if – or when – we find them, or they f

From black holes boiling themselves out of existence to equations describing the entire history of the Universe.

The fine folks at NASA are sending a spacecraft to the Sun, and they want to send a little piece of you along with it. Here’s how to get your name on the ultimate “fry” list. A memory chip containing a list of submitted names will be inserted into the Parker…

Low-fat pigs? Chickens with cancer-fighting eggs? It's no longer surprising to hear that scientists have figured out how to alter animals in new, creative ways - that's how precise genetic engineering has become.

It's the 21st century, yet these days it's feeling an awful lot like the frosty bite of the Cold War is, somehow, back from the dead.

According to a straightforward interpretation of general relativity, the Big Bang wasn't the start of 'everything'.

We have nanobots that swim inside our bodies and monitor our vital organs. We have autonomous robots that work alongside human doctors to perform complex surgeries. There are rovers driving across the surface of Mars and, as you read this, thee hum