Hackers have stolen $1.5bn (£1.19bn) worth of digital money in what could be the biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft.

A newly discovered bat coronavirus could at some point spread to humans like COVID-19, Chinese researchers have found.

Elon Musk has had a heated exchange with famed astronaut Andreas Mogensen who accused has him of lying over claims that two NASA astronauts had been "left" in space.

Apple's decision to withdraw its most secure cloud storage service from the UK is just the latest turning point in a battle that has been rumbling on between US tech companies and successive British governments for some time.

Apple will no longer offer customers in the UK its most advanced, end-to-end security encryption feature for cloud data storage - following a row with the government.

Chinese universities are launching AI courses based on the country's groundbreaking startup DeepSeek.

A Spanish photographer has been named Underwater Photographer of the Year for his picture of a humpback whale and her newborn calf in French Polynesia. 

Voters in Germany are being exposed to copious far-right narratives online from AI-generated content and Russian disinformation campaigns.

Thousands of men are to be checked for prostate cancer in one of the first large-scale European trials of smart screening.

High-visibility clothing may make pedestrians and cyclists invisible to modern braking technology, a study has suggested.

As a journalist who does shift work - I'm obsessed with sleep.

After he was squirted in the eye with battery acid, Paul Laskey thought he would lose his eye entirely, until a donated placenta helped save some of his sight.

Hundreds of children with a rare and severe form of epilepsy are hoping a new drug being rolled out on the NHS may provide a better quality of life.

The tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh has been found for the first time since Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922.

The risk of the 2024 YR4 asteroid hitting Earth at the end of 2032 has increased again, according to NASA data.

South Korea has accused the Chinese AI company DeepSeek of sharing user data with TikTok's owner, according to the Yonhap news agency.

The elusive founder of disruptive Chinese AI company DeepSeek has been spotted attending a Beijing conference, one week after snubbing a global AI summit in Paris.

Reintroducing wolves in the Scottish Highlands could allow native forests to bloom and help reach climate targets, researchers have suggested.

Meta is planning to build the world's longest undersea cable, aiming to connect the US, India, South Africa, Brazil and other regions.

Nearly 39,000 child sex abuse image crimes were recorded last year - with an "unacceptable loophole" in the law leaving children vulnerable on messaging services, says the NSPCC.