Science & Technology

You receive an invitation, emblazoned with a question: “A bouncing little ‘he’ or a pretty little ‘she’?” The question is your teaser for the “gender reveal party” to which you are being invited by an expectant...

Documents posted online Friday appear to be confidential internal Facebookcommunications that reveal new details of the company’s treatment of user data. About 60 pages of un-redacted exhibits from a lawsuit between Facebook and Six4Three, an app developer, were...

Using the LOFAR radio telescope, astronomers have discovered hundreds of thousands of previously undetected galaxies. Scientists hope the find will allow them to learn more about black holes and how galaxy clusters form. The different colors...

SpaceX’s Mars ships won’t be ferrying just the super rich to and from the Red Planet, if everything goes according to Elon Musk’s plan. The price of a seat aboard SpaceX’s Starship interplanetary vehicle will eventually drop enough...

A collection of short wiggly structures discovered in ancient rocks could be the earliest fossilised traces of organisms able to move themselves, scientists say. If scientists are correct, the 2.1bn-year-old structures point to an earlier origin...

The Amazon CEO has accused the tabloid of threatening to publish nude images of him to stop him investigating acquisition of intimate text messages. A sprawling international scandal involving Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon and...

Is your child a “whale”? A teenager once spent $6,500 on Facebook games over two weeks, according to a recent report by the Center for Investigative Reporting. Some Facebook employees internally referred to these children as “whales,” a term...

If you want to know what makes hummingbirds tick, it’s best to avoid most poetry about them. Bird-beam of the summer day, — Whither on your sunny way? Whither? Probably off to have a bloodcurdling fight,...

Evidence of the first beer believed to have been brewed in the UK, dating back more than 2,000 years, has been uncovered by road workers. Signs of the iron age brew from about 400BC were identified...

“When I first saw it, I just said ‘What?!’ and didn’t speak for a while,” said one of the researchers who studied the fossils of a prehistoric marine reptile. No mammal may be more perplexing than...