
A shipwreck has been found from the time of Alexander the Great
1 December 2017
Of three wrecked ships found near Cyprus, one dates from around 330 BC and hints at a vast trading network that spanned the Mediterranean

1 December 2017
Of three wrecked ships found near Cyprus, one dates from around 330 BC and hints at a vast trading network that spanned the Mediterranean

29 November 2017
Frantic about how to please your loved ones this festive season? Take a deep breath and plunge into Âé¶¹´«Ã½'s present picks

8 November 2017
Calls to ban killer robots ignore the fact that human soldiers can make lethal mistakes. If driverless cars will save lives, perhaps armed machines can as well

22 September 2017
Remote warfare raises questions about who gets military honours, but the stress and trauma drone crews face deserves recognition, says David Hambling

20 September 2017
The sabre-rattling between Pyongyang and Washington is masking a dangerous destabilisation in deterrence – making nuclear war by accident a real possibility

9 August 2017
If you can't restart a stopped heart within 5 minutes, brain damage starts. But using the lungs as a heat exchanger to chill the blood may buy us more time

26 July 2017
Mastering materials that have never been made before could deliver blasts big enough to shoot rockets to Mars

7 June 2017
We have nature reserves on land and at sea, but the sky has never been considered a habitat, let alone one worth preserving, until now

24 May 2017
If there's truth in cold war claims about tracking subs, it would rewrite our theories of turbulence and foil our nuclear deterrent

17 May 2017
A new wind atlas will help turbines avoid the doldrums – and solve some of wind's enduring mysteries