Science & Technology

On DNA and its marvellous mistakes

Without DNA's capacity to blunder, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

Q&A with Jonathan M. Berman, author of "Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement".

Salt water farms offer a solution to climate change challenges, revolutionising how we grow food.

Working from home increasingly means accepting intrusive forms of AI surveillance. But these systems are troublingly unscientific and unethical.

A new study concludes that Earth's nearest neighbour is younger than we thought.

From pandemics to climate change, new techniques in chemistry use the power of nature to fight existential challenges

A thorough account of the persecution and trial of a man for "the most significant breakthrough in the history of science".

Silicon Valley has lost its utopian sheen in recent years. Two fiery new books take the tech bros to task

What if we looked at human history from a bird's eye view?

A wave of recent dramas has finally put the realities of infertility centre stage