Science & Technology

Uranus smells like rotten eggs, NASA has revealed after decades of mystery. This is because its gas clouds are rich...

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Social media is a daily way of life for many Americans. Nearly half of...

Leading Chinese tech firms have pledged to address gender discrimination in job ads after a damning report by campaign group...

Spaceships using conventional hydrogen-oxygen fuel will be able to take people to the moon, Mars or Venus. But human exploration...

A wormhole is a theoretical passage that cuts through space-time, which could create shortcuts for long journeys across the universe....

By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent It's lift-off for a new era in planet-hunting. The US space agency's Tess satellite...

By Chris Ciaccia Facebook, still reeling from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, has outlined new steps it is taking towards...

Researchers have accidentally improved a naturally occurring enzyme to enhance its plastic-eating abilities. The modified enzyme, which can digest plastic...

A diamond-bearing space rock that exploded in Earth's atmosphere in 2008 was part of a lost planet from the early...

By Mary Halton Science reporter, BBC News Scientists have improved a naturally occurring enzyme which can digest some of our...

Facebook must face a class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology, a California judge has ruled. The...

PCmag When your CEO just faced a grilling by the Senate over a lack of privacy and data protection, it...

More than 400 barrels of low-level nuclear waste reportedly have to be examined and possibly repacked at a storage facility...

Telescope hitching ride on a SpaceX rocket designed to spot alien worlds Ian Sample Science editor If the vagaries of...

In all the company has spent about $20m on security and private planes for Zuckerberg since 2015. The security funds...

A businessman fighting for the "right to be forgotten" has won a UK High Court action against Google. The man,...

The prospects and opportunities for the development of solar energy were discussed during the consultation, chaired by Acting Prime Minister...

It looks like we may have to wait until 2020 for a Sony PlayStation 5 The Sony PlayStation 5 release...

By CARL COURT A new round of talks on the use of so-called killer robots reopened at the United Nations...

By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website Prof David Reich of Harvard Medical School is one of the leading...