Science & Technology

Will plasma jets one day power deep space travel?

Faster speed of travel is required for humans to explore deep space. Rockets propelled by plasma might be the answer.

Farmers in the UK are being paid to plant trees. But away from the hype, concerns about the impact of afforestation are growing.

Pi has fascinated mathematicians for millennia. Today, finding a record number of digits of pi has become something of a sport.

DNA provides the blueprint for our bodies, but how are we actually constructed? And what happens when it all goes wrong?

We “talk” with our pets all the time, but research into their language skills has been minimal – until now.

A Silicon Valley start-up has developed "accent matching" technology to enable better cross-cultural communication. But does it come with risks?

Europe has lately been suffering from a carbon dioxide shortage. But why can't we just extract it from the air?

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded, in part, to two physicists who took on the unenviable task of predicting the unpredictable.

We spoke with the writer Jonathan Franzen on civil liberties and the politics of denialism around climate change.

We talk to the "poet of physics" about the history, and sheer wonder, of quantum theory.