But the head of the US delegation at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi says: “We totally reject global governance of AI.”

Baroness Kidron tells the BBC the PM has being “late to the party” in regulating social media.

Clips of Deadpool and other film characters have sparked alarm within Hollywood over copyright infringement.

Research adds weight to theory Arrokoth’s two lobes produced by gravitational collapse – and reveals process

It is the most distant and primitive object ever visited by a spacecraft from Earth: now researchers say they have fresh insights into how the ultra-red, 4bn-year-old body known as Arrokoth came to have its distinctive snowman-like shape.

Arrokoth sits in the Kuiper belt, a vast, thick...

The company says it has addressed the issue and it “did not provide anyone access to information they weren’t already authorised to see”.

My father, Desmond McConnell, who has died aged 95, made a great contribution to mineralogy, inspiring scientists around the world.

At Cambridge University in the 1960s and 70s, with the excellent X-ray diffraction facilities in the Mineralogy Department, he developed work first published by his crystallographer colleagues, Peter Gay and Mike Bown, on the incommensurate behaviour (ie falling...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 crashed to Earth last year. Now scientists have measured the pollution it caused.

As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world

In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out its latest public health alert on so-called “superbugs”, strains of...

The Gates Foundation said the decision was made to “ensure the focus remains on the summit’s key priorities”.

Madeleine Finlay sits down with science editor Ian Sample and science correspondent Nicola Davis to discuss three eye-catching stories, including the impact of a powerful psychedelic on depression, answers on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and an explanation to the mystery of why humans have chins

Single dose of potent psychedelic drug could help treat depression, trial...

Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences

What was I thinking? This is not as easy or straightforward a question as I would have thought. As soon as you try to record and categorise the contents of your consciousness – the sense impressions, feelings, words, images, daydreams, mind-​wanderings, ruminations, deliberations,...

Face transplant patient Robert Chelsea and writer Fay Bound Alberti talk through the promise – and darker side – of this pioneering surgery

In 2019, Robert Chelsea made medical history, becoming the first black patient to ever have a full face transplant.

He had previously suffered from a devastating car crash, leaving his face severely burnt. Once, he recalls to Annie Kelly, a little boy on...