The radioactive legacy of the search for plutopia
Cold war dreams of producing nuclear bombs fuelled shocking radiation experiments by US and Soviet governments, reveals Kate Brown's Plutopia
Secrets of the body
From unruly urges to our neglected nooks and crannies, we reveal the body as you've never seen it before
Quantum computer could solve prime number mystery
A quantum algorithm has been devised that could help work out how prime numbers are distributed, a problem worth $1 million in prize money
Birds evolve shorter wings to survive on roads
"Vehicular selection" seems to be working on US cliff swallows: they have evolved shorter wings that help them take off quickly and dart away from cars
Web pioneers share ?1m for winning engineering 'Nobel'
Five web pioneers, including Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf, won the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering today
World's largest nests are socialist bird collectives
No, it's not a giant haystack, but a multistorey apartment complex built by sociable weavers - an example of one of the largest structures constructed by birds
Should business be allowed to patent mathematics?
A long-running philosophical debate is being rehashed in the world of business, and big money is at stake, says Stephen Ornes
Robot salamander crawls and swims like the real thing
Salamandra robotica II changes the way it moves based on the intensity of electric signals running through its "spinal cord" circuits
Smartphones can help us keep stress at bay
An app that logs stressful moments in our lives can help us manage pressure and improve our general health, says its creator Dirk Trossen
Deepest point in the ocean is teeming with life
At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, some 11,000 metres below sea level and at pressures 1100 times those at the surface, bacteria are thriving
Gold seams form in an earthquake-powered flash
The process that concentrates gold into mineable deposits has puzzled geologists for years - they may have found a shuddering solution
Plutonium tests offer hope for dark space missions
Spacecraft that venture where the sun don't shine need plutonium-238 for power, but the isotope has not been made in the US for decades - until now
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