Government and business websites around the world were taken down in a bid to protect organisations after a critical software update was issued over vulnerabilities in programming language.

Scientists have found clues that could help predict who will develop aggressive prostate cancer many years in advance.

Exceeding a key global climate target is now "imminent and unavoidable", United Nations (UN) scientists have warned.

Japan launched a spacecraft towards Mars in a ground-breaking mission to bring back samples from the largest of the planet's two moons.

A former OpenAI engineer charged with secretly installing a recording device at its offices was "mere days" away from fleeing to Saudi Arabia before his arrest, prosecutors allege.

An expedition to investigate if an anomaly seen on a satellite image of a remote island in the South Pacific was Amelia Earhart’s missing plane has ended without recovering the wreckage.

Neanderthals were not the unintelligent cave dwellers of popular imagination, but may have been capable of showing both violence and care, researchers who have discovered bones dating back 75,000 years have said.

Severe drought has been declared in parts of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, East Sussex and West Sussex, the government has said.

The world's oldest shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Turkey, according to archaeologists.

A previously unknown species of wild cat has been identified in South America.

The EU is banning social media for under 13s and limiting older children's access in an attempt to protect youngsters from suffering online harm on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon which has a span the length of two football pitches.

A life-extending drug will be made available on the NHS to patients in England with a specific type of incurable breast cancer, after an initial decision to reject the treatment was reversed.

The CEO of Nvidia has said there is no need to introduce regulations in the AI sector, following widespread concerns over safety.

America has deployed weapons in space to guard against "hostile adversary action", the US military confirmed for the first time.

One in five people are now using AI to keep up with current affairs, according to communications watchdog Ofcom.

A scientist has warned that artificial intelligence could "any day now create a catastrophe" and "needs to be tackled more urgently" than climate change. 

A €5bn (£4.3bn) EU fund which invests in some of the continent's most promising scale-up technology companies is leading a $100m (£73.9m) funding round for Tandem Health, an AI medical assistant which has built a presence at the epicentre of Britain's private healthcare industry.

Hurricane season has seen an unusually low number of storms forming over the Atlantic - and it's all because of El Nino.

The UK will experience a greater risk of flooding and a wetter autumn than average, the Met Office has said.