Alex Wilkins

The project aims to address Twitter's hate speech problem.

Photographer Kadir van Lohuizen captures the food industry's attempts to meet the challenges of climate change and conflicts in his new book, Food for Thought

Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could show us how to make better fibre-optic cables

The effects of being in space can worsen an astronaut's working memory, processing speed and attention - which could be a problem for future missions

The best pictures we have of the sun yet have been delivered thanks to the Solar Orbiter spacecraft By Alex Wilkins

Using four telescopes linked together, astronomers have captured an astonishing image of a huge star more than 160,000 light years away

The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid shows how hard it is to avoid contaminating samples brought back to Earth