Science

Image copyright Cern Image caption The Future Circular Collider is four times the circumference and ten times the power of the current collider Cern has published its ideas for a £20bn successor to the Large […]

Image copyright ChimpFace Image caption Seven-year-old Manno was captured as an infant in 2011 and smuggled to Syria Wildlife criminals had better watch out! The same software that recognises you in a friend’s social media […]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSimeon Hill: “Our data goes all the way back to the ‘Discovery era’ of the 20s and 30s” A keystone prey species in the Southern Ocean is […]

Image copyright Getty Images You’ll find it on the wall of nearly every school chemistry laboratory in the land. And generations of children have sung the words, “hydrogen and helium, lithium, beryllium…” in an attempt […]

Image copyright NASA/JHU-APL/SWRI The New Horizons probe has sent back its best picture yet of the small, icy object Ultima Thule, which it flew past on New Year’s Day. The image was acquired when the […]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe Duke of York demonstrates a so-called “wrapped rib” configuration The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has approached start-up Oxford Space Systems (OSS) to design antennas for […]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionProf Julian Dowdeswell: “I must stress: sea-ice conditions are always difficult in the Weddell Sea” A scientific expedition in the Antarctic has set out on a quest […]

Image copyright Norrie Russell, The Roslin Institute Image caption These chickens have a human gene that enables them to lay eggs containing useful drugs Researchers have genetically modified chickens that can lay eggs that contain […]

Image copyright wakr10 Thousands of lakes across the Northern Hemisphere are set to lose their winter ice as global temperatures rise, say scientists. Their new study suggests that, within a generation, over 35,000 lakes will […]

Image copyright Getty Images A coalition of investors is calling on McDonald’s, KFC, and other fast food suppliers to take swift action on climate change. The group, with around $6.5 trillion under management, want the […]