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Even if agricultural practices adapt in response to higher temperatures, five of the world’s six main staple crops will suffer severe losses due to cl

The world’s best Go-playing AIs can beat the best humans at the game, but their introduction has also helped human players improve their skills

Ciaran Martin, the former head of cyber security at GCHQ, says the UK government was “naive” to expect a request for Apple to weaken its encryption se

The age of the rings that encircle Saturn is under dispute thanks to calculations that show they could have been formed billions – rather than million

Palestinian telecommunications companies say that Israeli military bombardment of Gaza has cut off nearly all mobile phone and internet communications

Viruses that infect bacteria – called phages – are abundant in our bodies, and they seem to have beneficial effects when our cells engulf them

A man with a condition that has rotated his head backwards can identify upright and inverted faces with similar accuracy, suggesting that facial proce

An artificial intelligence can guess what a song sounds like based on patterns of brain activity recorded while people were listening to it

A woman is in remission for HIV after she received HIV-resistant stem cells from umbilical cord blood to treat her leukaemia

A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma