California space law boosts business, not safety
The new law treats private spaceflight more like sky-diving than air travel, but there are no statistics on the safety of commercial trips
Can castration really prolong a man's life?
Analysis of records of court eunuchs in Korea suggest that castration prolongs life. Does it really, or are there other explanations?
Threatwatch: New killer virus in the Middle East
Is the new coronavirus that has killed a man in Saudi Arabia the next SARS? How worried should we be about this threat?
Poll deals climate change blow for Mitt Romney
The Republican party's scepticism about climate change could play badly with undecided voters as a poll suggests 65 per cent believe it is caused by humans
Poke Einstein's brain with a genius iPad app
The National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago has released an iPad app containing digital images of Einstein's preserved brain
Lane-keeping app makes any car smarter
A smartphone app gives old bangers two safety features that are normally reserved for luxury cars: a lane-departure warning and driver-fatigue alerts
Our token involvement in the Game of Life
A play about emergence draws parallels between ant colonies and human behaviour, but fails to portray the big picture of the Game of Life
Water-cooled chip concentrates the sun to desalinate
IBM is turning its water-cooled microprocessor technology to a solar power application that could bring clean drinking water to arid regions
The pros and cons of geoengineering
With time running out to cut emissions, take a look at the main technological planet-cooling methods proposed - and find out their pros and cons
Meet the man who gave the Mars rover its eyes
Iconic pictures from the latest mission to the Red Planet are coming courtesy of space imaging expert Michael Malin
Truth decay: The half-life of facts
Much of what we believe to be factual has an expiration date, but the good news is that we can see it coming
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