The media response to a new Ofcom report warns of addiction and isolation. But the internet is here to stay—so let's let it bring us together

It shouldn't take extraordinary acts to prove one deserves to be a citizen. Could the blockchain provide an answer?

A great debate has raged over what precisely this field can tell us. Ninety years later physicists still can’t decide

Sperm counts have been decreasing for decades. Nobody seems to know why it’s happening, and not much is being done to find out, but we could be facing a public health disaster

Italian astronomers have detected a shallow body of liquid water beneath the planet’s South Polar ice cap

The couple recently exposed near Salisbury reportedly had high concentrations of Novichok on their fingers. How did it get there—and why will it be so hard to decontaminate the town?

With only two living females, the Northern white rhino is functionally extinct. Now, scientists are attempting to use assisted reproductive technology to save it

There’s a taste of the sublime in the photograph of this extrasolar world

This admittedly catchy idea is undermining the integrity of physics

David Omand, who ran GCHQ, argues that Twitter and Facebook embolden the far Right