Iran says it has placed mines in the Straight of Hormuz to discourage independent traffic. How dangerous are naval mines, and what can be done to clear them?

Ukraine is struggling to recover thousands of artworks and other cultural objects lost during Russia’s full-scale invasion. Missing records and lack of access to occupied territories make the full sca ...

Artist's impression of the Cygnus X-1 binary system, showing how the wind of the supergiant star bends the black hole's jets ...

A Gavin and Stacey star has shared the unusual reason she asked her husband to retrieve her dead dog’s bones after they’d ...

Ranch dressing is the best-selling salad dressing in the U.S., surpassing Italian dressing near the end of the 20th century. Love it or hate it, it's ubiquitous and it's not ...

Adobe patches CVE-2026-34621 after active exploitation since Dec 2025, preventing remote code execution via malicious PDFs.

The bug was assigned CVE-2025-2135, and we successfully used it to pwn Google’s V8CTF as a zero-day. The root cause lies in TurboFan’s InferMapsUnsafe() function, which fails to handle aliasing when ...

A Bronze Age shield found in a peat bog has been returned to Scotland for the first time in more than 230 years. The "spectacular and intricate" combat guard was discovered during labouring work in a ...