Cloud suicide will wake black hole sleeping giant
A bust-up between a gas cloud and the Milky Way's supermassive black hole will generate flares of radiation that could explain why it is normally placid
Big ships go green with retro technology
From solar sails, or even canvas ones, to underwater carpets of air, a raft of new technologies could revolutionise the global shipping industry
Jackson the elephant seal tracked travelling 29,000 km
A baby-faced elephant seal nicknamed Jackson has been tracked completing an epic journey while searching for food
I want to give poor children computers and walk away
Can tablet computers "parachuted" into remote areas transform childhood learning, asks Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind One Laptop per Child
Supreme Court to judge on patents for treating disease
Medics say patent for guidelines on drug dosage should not be recognised since doctors already understood relationship between dosage and the body
Grimm design? A fairy palace made of baby teeth
Artist Gina Czarnecki makes cushions from human fat and a palace from children's teeth
Mystery of the male ostrich's erection solved
The few birds that have penises erect them using a low-pressure fluid that doesn't work very well
One-Minute Physics: How wind can take down a bridge
Watch an animation that debunks a typical explanation for the famous Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse
Brave the mall maze with indoor positioning systems
Several new technologies aim to keep you on track when traversing giant shopping malls and other confusing buildings
Zoologger: My brain's so big it spills into my legs
Little spiders have a big problem - their brains are so big they have literally spilled out of their body cavities and into their legs
Fastest ever camera captures light in a flash
The camera records one trillion exposures per second and could be used for medical and industrial imaging
Power of Babel: Why one language isn't enough
Humans speak 7000 different tongues - and not just to be difficult. Everything from genes to jungles has played a part, says David Robson
Riot shields could scatter crowds with 'wall of sound'
Shields that emit low-frequency pressures waves to hamper breathing would disperse crowds safely, a new patent claims
Why psychiatrists should mind their language
American Madness: The rise and fall of dementia praecox is the history of the old name for schizophrenia, showing the problems with such labels
Orang-utans digest their own muscles to survive
Faced with chronic food shortages, orang-utans adopt a radical strategy to stave off starvation
World's fastest cells race for the first time
Watch human eye cells train for a ground-breaking microscopic competition
Hairier is better - bedbugs bite our barest bits
Compared to other primates, we are a relatively naked ape. The fine hairs we have left could help us fight off the bedbugs' bite
Ultra-flat cells give buttercup its yellow glow
The key to the buttercup's chin-brightening gleam seems to lie in the exceptionally flat cells of its epidermal layer
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