Petition urges Jeff Bezos to blast into space – and stay there
Change.org effort that says ‘billionaires should not exist’ has gathered tens of thousands of signatures
Robots may soon be able to reproduce – will this change how we think about evolution?
Nature is full of examples of biology adapting to its surroundings. Technology may just be about to catch up, says Emma Hart of Edinburgh Napier University
Ailsa Land obituary
Researcher into mathematical approaches to real-world problems who seized on the increased possibilities offered by computers
David Eagleman: ‘The working of the brain resembles drug dealers in Albuquerque’
The neuroscientist, broadcaster and author on the evolution of the brain, the mystery of consciousnesss, and why the next generation will be much smarter than us
Rocket men: Bezos, Musk and Branson scramble for space supremacy
Experts say three billionaires have upended the traditional model for human spaceflight and are shaping a thriving new era
Golden oldie: the story behind George Romero’s long-lost rebuke to ageism
The Amusement Park was a public-service movie made when the horror maestro was a struggling novice. His widow explains why ‘it’s more Romero than all his other films’
Quantum leap for medical research as microscope zooms in on tiny structures
Australian scientists develop a microscope that works with 35% more clarity, raising hope for improvements in medical imaging
Huge two-day underwater avalanche sent mud 1,000km into ocean
Event may have gone unnoticed had it not slowed data traffic between Nigeria and South Africa
Do aliens exist? I think we have enough on our plate already
A Pentagon report on UFOs is almost here, but I’d rather not consider another looming disaster, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Plans to build world’s deepest pool in Cornwall to train astronauts
Blue Abyss applies for permission to build £150m centre with pool that would reach depths of 50m
Digital forensics experts prone to bias, study shows
Participants found more or less evidence on hard drive depending on what contextual information they had
How we made Short Circuit, by Steve Guttenberg and John Badham
‘A producer said: “Great – but can he dance?” So we got him to move like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever’
Demis Hassabis: the deep mind Dominic Cummings turned to as the pandemic hit
The AI researcher and co-founder of Google’s DeepMind was one of many who pressed for an hard lockdown in March 2020
‘Stranger than anything dreamed up by sci-fi’: will we ever understand black holes?
In the new documentary Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know, the work of Stephen Hawking and others in trying to figure out a mystery for the age is put under the spotlight
Theoretical physicist Chiara Marletto: ‘The universal constructor could revolutionise civilisation’
The scientist on why studying elementary particles is only one way of explaining phenomena, how the 3D printer could change the world, and her optimism about women in science