What are the chances of AI catastrophe? Higher than you think

Sun 31 May 2026

Richard Dawkins on AI, evolution and alien life

Wed 27 May 2026

‘It’s shocking we’re going through it all again’: scientists race for vaccine as Ebola ravages Congo

Sun 24 May 2026

My week as a Grote’s bertholdia moth

Sun 24 May 2026

We used to be social media broadcasters but now we’re mobile couch potatoes

Fri 15 May 2026

Politics is trumping economics in the battle for growth

Sun 10 May 2026

‘It’s the equivalent of Gulf oil’: investors bet on UK science

Sun 10 May 2026

The Claude delusion: why Richard Dawkins is wrong about AI consciousness

Sun 10 May 2026

Britain is on the cusp of a new technological industrial revolution

Sun 10 May 2026

In the Pluto planetary debate, scientists are still worlds apart

Sat 9 May 2026

The prize that could make ‘talking to the animals’ a reality

Sat 9 May 2026

How magnets and a mini trapeze could help save Britain’s bees

Sun 3 May 2026

View from Silicon Valhalla: the lessons of Sweden’s rise to tech powerhouse

Sun 26 Apr 2026

The woman who thinks violence is in our genes

Thu 16 Apr 2026

OpenAI may be in too deep

Mon 13 Apr 2026

Confessions of an online addict: ‘My phone is a needle and social media the concoction it delivers’

Sun 12 Apr 2026

In polarised times, AI may be the centrist the world needs

Sat 11 Apr 2026

US satellite blackout has a troubling history

Wed 8 Apr 2026

The Artemis programme is for all humanity

Sun 5 Apr 2026

The new Ofcom chair’s first task is to tame Elon Musk

Sat 4 Apr 2026

‘Lethal hyperactivation’ may be key to making cancer cells go pop

Sun 29 Mar 2026

Never mind the petits pois – food scientists celebrate creation of tasteless peas

Sun 29 Mar 2026

Lawsuits allege AI chatbots are inciting users to violence

Tue 17 Mar 2026

Elon Musk chooses the moon

Mon 9 Mar 2026

Your best baby

Hoping for a ‘perfect’ baby? Genetic testing startups lure parents to US

Sun 8 Mar 2026

Make AI more like a human? It’s far too clever for that

Fri 6 Mar 2026

Michael Pollan tackles the hard problem of consciousness

Thu 5 Mar 2026

The maestros using new technologies to transform science

Fri 27 Feb 2026

Smart coating will protect greenhouses from heatwaves

Sun 22 Feb 2026

Big tech profited from our attention – now AI wants to monetise intentions

Fri 20 Feb 2026

The woman who mapped the Atlantic from her living room

Sun 15 Feb 2026

Thinking digital technology is ‘weightless’ means your head is in the clouds

Fri 13 Feb 2026

Call my AI agent! Chatbots can now post on their own version of Reddit

Fri 6 Feb 2026

As its unicorns falter, China eyes UK’s surging tech dragons

Sun 1 Feb 2026

ChatGPT is introducing porn

Life sciences district could create 20,000 jobs by 2035

Sun 18 Jan 2026

The lost art of paying attention

Sat 17 Jan 2026

The UK is wedded to US tech. Time for a divorce

Fri 16 Jan 2026

Do we still need astronauts?

Fri 16 Jan 2026

Tesla is being overtaken, but its shares are still in top gear

Fri 9 Jan 2026

Michael Boulter, palaeontologist

Sat 3 Jan 2026

AI has a ‘provenance problem’. Here’s how to avoid it

Sat 3 Jan 2026

Paul Nurse: ‘We are putting barriers in the way of getting the most talented scientists’

Fri 2 Jan 2026

Jane Goodall, remembered by Robin McKie

Fri 26 Dec 2025

The grid: Wilson Bentley’s snowflakes

Sat 20 Dec 2025

Why stablecoins – crypto for adults – have suddenly become a big deal

Fri 12 Dec 2025

Man discovers fire... in Thetford

Wed 10 Dec 2025

Good vibrations could nudge our ageing brains back into a youthful groove

Fri 28 Nov 2025

The ‘digital bridge’ that could help the paralysed walk again

Fri 28 Nov 2025

Meta fought the law and the law didn’t win

Fri 21 Nov 2025

‘I’m sorry Dave’: when AI agents go rogue

Thu 13 Nov 2025

Broken education system is holding back the young, top scientists warn PM

Sun 9 Nov 2025

James Watson, scientist who discovered the double helix

Sun 9 Nov 2025

Would you pay an AI to read your book? Authors may soon not have any choice

Fri 7 Nov 2025

Francis Crick: The science genius with poetry in his DNA

Sat 1 Nov 2025

Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages

Sat 25 Oct 2025

A million-year-old skull from China has rewritten human evolution

Fri 17 Oct 2025

Is the AI bubble history repeating itself? Ask a chatbot

Fri 17 Oct 2025

Brain-training firm struggles to remember who it has worked with

Wed 15 Oct 2025

The wheels have come off Musk’s monstertruck

Sat 11 Oct 2025

The machines that made Manchester

Wed 8 Oct 2025

Ten UK data centres could cancel EV emissions gain

Sat 4 Oct 2025

Medical funding cuts could kill future breakthroughs

Thu 2 Oct 2025

A breakthrough in treating Huntington’s disease

The Observer view: Labour should rethink its manifesto

Sun 28 Sept 2025

Obituary: David Baltimore, the visionary virologist

Thu 11 Sept 2025

Tech turmoil threatens investment drive in UK

Sun 7 Sept 2025

The millionaire guinea pigs risking death to live for ever

Sun 7 Sept 2025

The twins helping scientists break new ground

Sat 6 Sept 2025

Stop AI ‘companions’ destroying young lives

Sat 6 Sept 2025

Carbon dioxide: the stuff of life

Thu 4 Sept 2025

The AI bubble swells

Robot games triumphs bring Chinese tech domination closer

Sun 24 Aug 2025

‘AI will help our work but it’s not our colleague’

Mon 18 Aug 2025

New breakthroughs turn the tide against cancer

Mon 18 Aug 2025

Nick Foster: ‘Predictions are mostly nonsense’

Fri 15 Aug 2025

Trump’s ire with Intel boss adds to woes for chip maker

Sat 9 Aug 2025

From defence to hiking, OS is still mapping out the future of Britain

Sat 9 Aug 2025