Photographers tap their wild side to win
It was survival of the fittest for the winners of Wildlife Photographer of the Year, with speedy reactions during Deepwater Horizon bagging the prize
Feedback: Blue whales versus aeroplanes
Bigness blues, proof of time travel in New Zealand literature, and how soon is now?
Astrophile: The sticky star cluster that's mostly black hole
Perched next to a gravitational titan, does a star cluster's mysterious cohesion come from a dense swarm of hidden black holes?
Your clever body: Thinking from head to toe
There's more to your mind than your brain, David Robson discovers - your body plays a part in everything from social savvy to mathematical ability
A better way to price the future takes hold
Disastrous short-term thinking is built into economic models world-wide, but a different approach is changing that
Inside the fusion furnace of California's star chamber
The US National Ignition Facility aims to harness the power of fusion at temperatures and pressures similar to those inside a detonating nuclear warhead
Why the UK buried a world-first carbon-capture scheme
The British government has dealt a body blow to hopes of mitigating global warming by capturing greenhouse gases. But is it fatal, wonders Stuart Haszeldine
Steven Pinker: Humans are less violent than ever
Pessimists, anti-capitalists, conservatives and greens, take note - we are much more peaceful now than we used to be, says the psychologist
Launch of Galileo satellites heralds new era
It is the beginning of the end of Europe's dependence on the US GPS fleet, and a boon for science too
Exotic pets USA: Tigers, big bucks and organised crime
Want pet kangaroos or tiger kittens? Lax laws and a multibillion-dollar trafficking industry mean it's easy to keep exotic animals in the US
Mosquito vs raindrop match video settles urban myths
Do mosquitoes fly in the rain? High-speed video shows how the insects survive a direct hit from a droplet that has 50 times their mass
Grave-robbing robot could revive dead satellites
A DARPA plan to harvest parts from dead satellites would cut the cost of launching new ones
Win a touchscreen watch in our time competition
Clocks for robots or a time-lapse clock face? Help us come up with a new way to represent time to win a touchscreen watch
First icy star-disc hints at source of Earth's water
There seems to be enough frozen water in the alien solar system to fill Earth's oceans thousands of times over
Control a touchscreen with raps, taps and flicks
A new interface lets you use your knuckles and fingernails to control a touchscreen - by listening to the sounds your finger makes
Sceptical climate scientists concede Earth has warmed
A group of sceptical scientists has reanalysed the temperature record for the past two centuries and found that global warming really is happening
Mouse manoeuvres in the dark reveal brain's map links
The cerebellum and hippocampus collaborate to help mice move around under cover of darkness - which might explain how people find the door in a dark room
First Americans hunted mastodons 13,800 years ago
A mastodon skeleton with a bone point embedded in a rib suggests that humans entered America earlier than we thought
Comedian laughs at death in Your Days Are Numbered
In their stand-up comedy show, Your Days are Numbered, Timandra Harkness and Matt Parker bring some levity to the end of life
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