One of the earliest motion pictures ever recorded has notched up another impressive first, being encoded into the DNA of living bacteria cells in an ambitious experiment testing the limits of the biological hard drive. While scientists have stored huge amounts…

If you like stunning cinematography capturing the windswept grandeur and awe-inspiring beauty of this rocky little planet we call home, we have some glorious news. The BBC has uploaded to YouTube a stupendous 40 hours of bonus footage filmed during the production…

One thousand years. That is the minimum length of time it would take us to get to the nearest star - Proxima Centauri - using current methods.

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And we still don't know why.

"Can I use this to convince my flat earther friend?" 

An evolutionary leap.

Scientists have developed a thin flexible battery suited to implantable devices that does away with dangerous chemicals and replaces them with biologically compatible liquids.

"Hi, mum!" 

Rock, paper… wait, what? 

A sleeping brain can form fresh memories, according to a team of neuroscientists.

Insomnia has a lot to answer for.

Popcorn at the ready! 

But it's your choice.

A closer look at data from NASA's oldest functional Mars orbiter has thrown up a puzzling result scientists didn't see coming: the Red Planet is hiding water ice where there shouldn't be any. A reanalysis of readings sourced by the Mars Odyssey probe reveals…

One manufacturing company just made history by successfully using a special 3D printer in extreme, space-like conditions.

Scientists have discovered for the first time that adult mouse brains produce new cells in the amygdala, a finding that could eventually lead to better treatments for conditions like anxiety and depression, as well as a better understanding of the br

President Donald Trump's vow to hit North Korea with 'fire and fury like the world has never seen' is an unveiled threat to unleash America's most potent weapons of mass destruction onto the Korean peninsula. According to many defence analysts, the risk of…

Swordplay on the nano level.

On 1 September, a mammoth 4.4 kilometre (2.7 mile) chunk of rock will pass within an astronomical whisker of our planet – the largest near-Earth object to come this close since NASA set up its Near Earth Observations program in 1998. Don't bother unlocking…