Why being first to return to the moon matters.

The Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s latest large language model has been described as a ‘Sputnik moment’ for the American tech ...

As part of our annual celebration of the contributions of female scientists, we bring you part six of this Collection series. From early career researchers to well-established senior scientists, the ...

10.45pm: So, the wait goes on for England. After arriving with high hopes, they have now lost four on the spin - although Australia won't be satisfied until the Ashes are won outright, having been ...

Franklin fascinates me because she was so strong and sure that she wanted to be a scientist in spite of her father and during a time when it was extremely difficult for women to have a career in ...

Through their research, these Peruvian women scientists are not only generating knowledge about tropical ecosystems but are also blazing trails for new generations of women in science. The stories of ...

Organised and responsible children are also likely to be mum and dad’s golden child. Scientists analysed data from 30 different studies of almost 20,000 people, looking for a trend between ...

When historians such as Tacitus and Cassius wrote about Rome conquering Britain from around AD 44 to 84, they described women holding positions of power. These include the famous warrior queen ...

Detractors also assert that scientists will only ever be able to engineer unsatisfactory imitations of extinct animals. Raising and breeding such creatures, some experts warn, could imperil living ...

Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage. An examination of ...

PARIS - Scientists analysing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern UK during the Iron Age was centred around women, backing up accounts from Roman historians ...