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Privacy laws mean a grandmother needs her daughter's permission to post photos of her grandchildren.

Scientists call for the conservation of nature to be at the centre of the economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic.

The major accord permits unarmed surveillance flights over dozens of participating countries.

While mind-numbing tedium is never the goal, it can often be the source of great art, writes Clare Thorp.

Rory Cellan-Jones encountered a few moral dilemmas while learning how to trace coronavirus contacts.

How a maverick scientist held the first esports championships in 1985 with his revolutionary surfing game but could not make his innovative ideas a commercial success.

Female and LGBTQ editors of the online encyclopaedia have complained of harassment.

The loon, which is on Canada's dollar coin, and the eagle, America's national bird, fought to the death.

While staying inside our homes is helping to shield us from the pandemic, missing out on time outdoors might alter our risk of catching diseases in other ways.

The practice, exposed by an opposition MP, has sparked uproar.

At least 76 people die - but two passengers survive - as the PIA plane hits a Karachi residential area.

Oxford University is asking for help deciphering ancient Greek texts written on fragments of papyrus found in Egypt.

The Large Hadron Collider collaboration begins a "citizen science" project to tap volunteers' computing power to simulate particle collisions.

A film made up entirely of clips uploaded to YouTube and directed by Kevin Macdonald is almost ready for its Sundance Film Festival premiere.

Millions of internet users across the EU could eventually join the fight against cyber crime, Europol's director tells peers.

Eli Pariser's book The Filter Bubble suggests internet users are seing their own views reflected online. Click tested the theory.

A website which pays the public to monitor live commercial CCTV footage online is launched.

His colourful history included escaping from a zoo and a rumour he once belonged to Adolf Hitler.

BBC Science writer Martin Redfern investigates plans to build and connect 3,000 radio telescopes across a continent together to help unlock the secrets of the universe.

Face recognition technology can be used to gain access to a person's private data, according to a new study.

Spectacles that merge the real world and cyberspace have been demonstrated by NTT and Olympus.

A new service called NearLondon will offer a replica of the capital's busiest shopping streets with digital shopfronts.

Hundreds attend an inaugural Wikipedia conference in Mumbai as the online encyclopaedia seeks to spread its influence across India. The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan was there.