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Four new species of aquatic birds related to modern penguins have been described from fossils found in New Zealand, showing how these creatures flourished around 60 million years ago ...

Not only is solar more than capable of supplying all the world's energy, in the long term it is the only power source that won't fry the planet ...

People seem to spend longer on the toilet if they use a smartphone while sitting there - and all that scrolling may be boosting their likelihood of getting haemorrhoids ...

An analysis of a range of dry dog foods finds that none are nutritionally complete, but vegan and vegetarian foods compare well with meat-based ones ...

Governments are looking to ban social media for children but can't get enough of AI - a technology parents are far less equipped to deal with ...

When it was first published in 1984, William Gibson's Neuromancer transformed sci-fi and instantly birthed the cyberpunk genre. Ahead of an upcoming TV adaptation, Emily H. Wilson revisits the prophetic novel to see if it stands the test of time ...

Flamingoes, a kingfisher and two red-crowned cranes are shown in all their glory in these images from the new book Aviary: The bird in contemporary photography ...

Societies can be united and inspired by ideas of the future. We urgently need more of them, argues futurist Sarah Housley ...

In Love's Labour, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on 40 years of conversations with his patients about relationships. This compelling memoir is reminiscent of the writing of Oliver Sacks, says David Robson ...

Feedback remembers Godzilla, and feels a little nervous about the wasp nest found at an old nuclear weapons site in South Carolina ...