Ellen Phiddian

The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as "xenotransplantation". But will pig livers eventually replace human organ transplants?

A tiny red speck has set a date on an important era in the Universe's early history and given astronomers a surprising insight into the "cosmic dawn".

A single bot generated and published millions of articles on the largest non-English version of Wikipedia. The results caused a rift among editors — and a glimpse of what the online encyclopedia might face from AI.

It's not the first time researchers have found a planet like the one in Star Wars, but this alien world has a particularly peculiar polar orbit around its two suns.

New research suggests a skeleton which belonged to a gladiator was mauled by a lion or another big cat during combat.

A study of a 100 million-year-old bone suggests the ancient relative of the echidna and the platypus was semiaquatic — and echidnas moved back to the land from the water as they evolved.

As new electric vehicle sales rise, more EVs are entering the used-car market. Are used-EV batteries any good, and how can you check?

Has the simple search become less useful in a world of low-information, SEO-optimised sites, and often faulty AI summaries? Are there better ways to navigate the web?

A green glow snapped from Mars marks the first time that an aurora has been observed from the surface of another planet.

Humpback whales are now migrating north to their warmer breeding waters — but some of them will give birth as far south as Tasmania, according to new research based on observations from citizen scientists.