Millions of people are turning to AI chatbot companions for comfort, mental support and even romance. But evidence that simulated relationships can be highly addictive and harmful has governments and regulators on the back foot. Is it time to shield society from the impacts?

Nvidia will partner up with Dassault Systèmes to combine their AI infrastructure and virtual twin technologies.

Humanity is closer to catastrophe than ever amid rising nuclear tensions, AI risks, biological security concerns and the worsening climate crisis, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

The UK is losing more jobs to AI and at a faster rate than its international peers, according to research by Morgan Stanley.

The devil is in the detail when it comes to switching from electrical to optical communications – and the data-centre boom has provided an opportunity to iron out some of those details.

Businesses’ reliance on cloud-based IT is putting them at risk. High-profile outages in 2025 have proved that resilience is crucial.

Aetherflux has announced plans to launch its first commercial data centre satellite in early 2027, the first step towards building a constellation of satellites.

Desperately needed new housing is being delayed across London due to energy-hungry data centres, the London Assembly has said.

Major UK and European ports will ship captured CO₂ to permanent storage sites in the North Sea.

French energy giant EDF is petitioning the UK government to allow it continue operating the Sizewell B nuclear power plant for 20 y

Nasa and Boeing have collaborated to test the performance of a ‘higher aspect ratio wing model’ designed to reduce drag, cut fue

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) will issue licences from 1 January 2026 for companies to supply methanol as a marine fuel.

The amount of renewable electricity curtailed in Great Britain in 2025 would have been enough to meet the combined annual electricity demand of every household in London, according to a new report.

The government has unveiled a major package of loans and grants for renewable tech to cut household energy bills, but has stoppe

The Tyrrhenian Link project has reached a key milestone, with two 500kV high-voltage direct current subsea cables laid at a record-breaking depth of 2,150 metres.

The UK saw record levels of renewable electricity on the grid in 2025 – although gas generation also rose as overall demand increased, new figures show.

A new £15m deal will restore regular container services through the Channel Tunnel, shifting freight from trucks to trains.

Funding slashed, data obfuscated, mass sackings, rank uncertainty: what’s it like to be a scientist under Trump’s administration?

Efforts to electrify the UK’s railways have been hampered by a boom-and-bust approach to funding that leaves most of the net

Donald Trump has ordered the US military to purchase energy from coal-fired power plants in a bid to shore up the flagging domestic industry.

When the National Energy System Operator (NESO) announced a new pipeline of deliverable energy projects at the end of last year,

The UK’s first ever geothermal power plant will be going live today, bringing a new source of low-carbon energy generation onto the electricity grid.

Four energy firms are joining forces to build the UK’s first hydrogen network in the Humber, linking hydrogen production with industrial customers and power stations.

Reddit has been fined £14.47m by the data regulator for failing to protect the privacy of children using the platform.

A Chinese smartphone firm has unveiled a ‘Robot Phone’ sporting a camera module that extends from the device on a gimbal

Electric vehicle batteries are expected to degrade faster in the future as global temperatures increase, but research has found that gains to battery performance in recent years will more than offset this effect.

A third trial to inspect and retrieve a small amount of radioactive debris from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been

Researchers are planning to extract gas that has built up under a landfill site in Wiltshire and use it for heat, power and CO2 in a growing dome to create ideal year-round growing conditions for crops.

A third trial to inspect and retrieve a small amount of radioactive debris from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been

A €6m German research project aims to move quantum communication networks out of the lab and into real-world, multi-node infrastructure.

Over 2,500 tonnes of green hydrogen from UK hydrogen supplier GeoPura will power construction machinery at the Lower Thames Cros

A polymer-based battery chemistry enables electric vehicles to keep working in freezing conditions, according to a study by Texas A&M University.